"No way. They were surrounded by three divisions of the Japanese army, and none of them could survive in such a situation. An officer said. Judging from his many years of experience in fighting the Japanese army, of course, it is impossible. Falling to the rear of the Japanese front meant that the troops immediately lost their organization and became scattered, as was the case in the Chinese theater. Even if the Japanese army does not have the energy to clear it, it will not become a climate, and in the end, these troops usually have three ways out, one is to defect to Wang Puppet in whole shares, the second is to fight guerrilla attacks in pieces, and the third is that someone will take the lead and go up the mountain to become bandits together. These three situations usually do not appear in isolation, and there is not necessarily a strict distinction between bandits, puppet armies and guerrillas, which has been a reality since the War of Resistance Against Japan.

"yes, it's unlikely, could it be a trap?" Immediately, some people echoed it, and in the past, there was a big precedent for the national army to be immediately encircled by the puppet government, and then to fight back.

"Why did it suddenly appear again? It's weird, it's weird. There is not a single unit that can fight for days and nights in a row, and then march hastily, jump out of the encirclement, and disappear into ......"

Everyone was gossiping, and some people's eyes fell on Chu Tingchang, only to see him sitting calmly and idly, I don't know when he raised Erlang's legs, he was always cautious in the past, and never saw him sit too far forward, sometimes deliberately lowered his head, so as not to appear too tall in the crowd, because the smallest officers here are all colonels; But as soon as Du Yuming fell, this kid seemed to be a little presumptuous. It also seems to have something to do with his own "lineage".

"My troops should survive, and I train them to do things that others can't......" Chu Tingchang said and waved his hand vigorously to show his dissatisfaction with the crowd's smoking.

"Brother Ting, are you so sure?" Hu Xianqun asked, this is the first time he has called Chu Tingchang his brother, although these polite titles in the old army have basically nothing to do with age, but they are indeed senior.

"Brother, my synthetic regiment is an iron-like army, where is it so easy to be defeated by the Japanese?"

"In other words, could it be that the Japanese are blind and such a large force has not been discovered in the back?"

"Hey, in fact, it's not all the Japanese who are blind, it's also our own credit, we ran more than 100 kilometers in a week, Mandalay is here, the Japanese army is not in a hurry to catch up, it must be negligent; Ladies and gentlemen, the terrain of Myanmar is wide in the north and narrow in the south, and everyone must know that now the Japanese army is 400 kilometers wide from east to west, with only 100,000 people, and they are all chasing along the road, and there are many mountains, how can it not leave loopholes? When I left, I had a deployment, once I fell behind the enemy, I hid on the spot, waited for the enemy's main force to pass, attacked in the rear, and dragged the enemy. ”

Chu Tingchang said a set of things, and everyone was stunned when they heard it. Common sense tells them that this is not feasible, a large army action, where is it so easy to say, say hide and hide, say fight and fight? Of course, the speed of escaping all the way from Mandalay was indeed faster, and it did make it impossible for the Japanese troops pursuing along the road to deploy their forces. Maybe that's how the synthesizer found the gap?

"Oh, what does Brother Yiting mean, what's next?" Hu Xianqun asked.

"I'll call my subordinates later to determine their location, but I have a general idea, please see, the current situation ......" He walked to the sand table and pointed his fingers, "56 in the east, 55 in the middle, and 18 divisions in the back." The pursuers followed. We went east, and there was the Nu River, the Lancang River, and the Huitong Bridge had also been blown up by the Japanese army...... There is little way back. Commander Du has always wanted to find a way out from the mountains, but he has never thought carefully, even if Gaoligong Mountain is away and there is a way to Longling, he must face the two rivers of Nu River and Lancang River, otherwise the Japanese army will follow all the way, and the reinforcements on the other side will not be able to pass. ”

He let go of his speech, completely ignoring offending Du Yuming, the commander was lying next door uncertain about his life and death.

Dai Anlan seemed to have a different opinion, but he stopped talking and didn't say it, this is a good phenomenon, he is a rectum, even Du Yuming dares to offend, naturally he will not give Chu Ting long face. Obviously, he was thinking about the feasibility of Chu Tingchang's plan.

"To the west, then?" Liao Yaoxiang asked.

"Well, there is only one newly formed 31st Division of the enemy in the west, which is the B Division, and currently owes one wing to Malaya, and it is full of fourteen or five thousand men. The unit had just fought with the new 38th Division, and it couldn't stop General Sun at all, and naturally it couldn't stop us. We turned around abruptly, fought with the 18th Division, moved closer to the road, and then our composite regiment suddenly captured the road, so that the passage to the west was unimpeded. ”

Chu Tingchang noticed that Dai Anlan walked a long circle along the sand table table, and when he reached the opposite side, he carefully inspected the terrain along the Qingdun River, and he probably noticed that the entire northern part of Myanmar was steep and high, but the west side was slightly lower. In fact, the Rakhine Mountains enter the Assam Plain in eastern India, and the terrain gradually flattens, while from Myitkyina to the north, it actually leads to the Himalayas, and the mountains naturally become steeper and steeper.

"But the three divisions in the east will not sit idly by, once we return to the army and open a bloody road, they will definitely follow, going too far to India, and may be consumed on the road, and turning to the east, it is much closer." Liao Yaoxiang said that he actually supported going west, but he was just looking for a way from the mountains north of Myitkyina, and Chu Tingchang's plan to return to the horse gun to fight a way out of the four ferocious Japanese divisions seemed too thrilling.

"General Zhang is in Songshan, the enemy must be fearful, and when the time comes, let the 58th Division make a feint, and the Japanese army will not be able to pursue it with all its troops. At most, two divisions and regiments, 70,000 or 80,000 of us, if they want to eat us, they have to see if they have good teeth. Ten thousand steps back......," he paused, turning to the crowd, "if we are eaten, we must fight with them to the death, and they will not be able to easily drive us into the mountains and starve to death." ”

The venue fell silent. Everyone is thinking about the trade-offs. Chu changed his image of a sycophant who followed Du Yuming in the past, completely betrayed Du's military thinking, and also went against the will of the old man in Chongqing who took a photo with him. Especially his last words - even if they are exhausted, they can't make the Japanese feel comfortable, and they really touched many people.

"I think that such a bold plan must first send a telegram to Chongqing...... We all went to India, and I'm sorry Chairman. Yu Shao, commander of the 96th Division, said. He is not from Whampoa, but he is even more afraid of these things, and deliberately brings them up and waits for others to deny them.

"I don't think so," Dai Anlan, who had been looking at the map, suddenly spoke, "The radio password has not been changed for more than a month, and the details of the power generation are easy to be intercepted by the enemy." I think Pavilion Chief Chu's plan is actually feasible, but some adjustments must be made, and the specific situation of the synthetic group and the remaining combat effectiveness must be determined first. I fear that they may have less than a thousand men behind enemy lines, and may not be able to make big waves or control the road. ”

"If that's decided, won't we burn so many tanks and trucks in vain?" Hu Xianqun's heart was touched, and tears came down.

"What's the pity of those Soviet-German broken tanks, they went to India and kept the big bosses of the United States to give a batch of new ones." Chu Tingchang said lightly. It's as if the big boss of the United States is himself.

Of course, he knew that throughout World War II, the US military armed nearly 40 divisions of the Kuomintang army, but this bit of steel only accounted for 0.5 percent of the entire US foreign aid in World War II. If more China goes to India, naturally more equipment will come.

At the same time, Lin Xiuxuan began to deploy the synthetic regiment operation in the mountains, on the road, Japanese trucks came and went, were transporting from west to east, because the Japanese army controlled Sittwe Port, so that they could unload goods closer to the battlefield, so this road also became precious, the Japanese army concentrated several divisions of engineering units, and soon built it. Now it was a ready-made passage to India, garrisoned only by about 1,500 Japanese troops, half of whom were sappers.

He did not shy away from limited exposure, and the Japanese army was also well aware that there were still a large number of stragglers who fled into the mountains in their rear, so they didn't care too much, and he let some squads start to attack Japanese military vehicles to loot all kinds of supplies, and he was now in urgent need of food and ammunition to prepare for the big retreat.

In fact, even within a few days of hiding in the mountains, the synthetic battalion contained up to 800 troops, mainly the new 38th Division. When the division went west, some of the rearguard units were scattered, and according to Sun Liren's order, the troops tried to take advantage of the night to find the headquarters along the road to the east, but they were absorbed by the composite regiment, and there were also some Indo-Burmese troops and Anglo-Indian troops, most of which had weapons and formations, and Lin Xiuxuan worked closely with Zhou Youfu to integrate the troops as much as possible.

In fact, the composite regiment was just an empty number given by the superior not long ago, and no resources were invested, but now it has exceeded the size of the regiment, and the simple strength is close to a wing of the Japanese army, and the heavy firepower is even more victorious.

Lin Xiuxuan let the troops disperse and attack, intending to attract the road protection troops to assemble and solve it at once. After being attacked by these troops, the enemy was overwhelmed and began to assemble, but instead of using field forces, he concentrated the troops of several surrounding military stations.

The communication heard by Qin Xiaosu showed that the Japanese army had gathered all kinds of miscellaneous troops within a radius of 10,000 square kilometers, including the garrison of the military station along the road, the engineer unit, the baggage team directly under the 15th Army, and the mixed second brigade, which was not in the weather, with about 1,000 people. This force was to carry out a sweep along the road to eliminate the remnants of the Exterminating Expeditionary Force entrenched here. This is, of course, wishful thinking. Lin Xiuxuan's communications corps carried radio stations to occupy commanding heights along the highway and observe the enemy's every move, and with the help of radio power, he could grasp the enemy's whereabouts at any time.

In fact, the establishment of the self-synthesized battalion began with a great wish of Stilwell, who hoped to use China's military strength and American material resources to create a truly mechanized teaching force and establish a generational advantage over the Japanese Army, but to Stilwell's expectation, every battle after the establishment of this unit was actually an information-based war, and the superiority was more than an order of magnitude greater than he could imagine.

The Japanese army was not reckless, and there was a large convoy full of food and ammunition in front of them, as a lure to the enemy. They expected that the remnants of the nearby troops had run out of ammunition and food, so they would inevitably attack the baggage, so the main force was on standby in the rear, and once it started, it could be completely annihilated by quickly surrounding. Of course, poison was also carried to compensate for the lack of troops. Qin Xiaosu heard from the enemy radio that a chemical warfare officer was following him, and he knew that it was not ordinary tear gas, but something even more unsightly to use.

The enemy's disposition is spread out on the table, and they want to use one-third of their weak forces to eat the well-equipped and superior number of synthetic regiments, so let them try.

Lin Xiuxuan and Tao Mingzhang decided to see the move and divide the troops, the only danger came from the poison gas troops, who were in the back of the position, and there were several mules and horses towing large-caliber mortars. , which must be eliminated in advance. Of course, this kind of thing has to be done by Zhou Youfu, the commander of the trust search battalion. He was once choked by Japanese poison gas, and he would never show mercy when he hit it.