Chu Tingchang negotiated with Sun Liren to advance and retreat together, and compared them on the map, planning how to separate up to pursue the enemy, and by the way replenish Wingate's task force, they had just captured Japanese documents, and there was a lot of useful information, but they ran out of ammunition.

Sun Liren was suspicious of Chu, and had reservations about Chu Tingchang's prediction that the Japanese army would come out of the fortified city defense of Chittagong. The information he got came from the British and American intelligence services, and the enemy's food could last a long time. But in fact, this information is wrong, because the intelligence department only calculates the part that leaves the port from Sittwe, and they do not know how many arrive at the port. Of course, in order to prevent big mistakes, the figures they fabricate are often common sense, and the enemy is lenient, so as far as the Allied Command knows, Chittagong's food is enough for the enemy to eat for two months. Of course, Chu Tingchang knew from 419 that the enemy had no food at all, so he had to withdraw. The Japanese army even formulated a plan to airdrop food along the way to replenish the troops, but due to the shortage of transport planes and limited technical support, they finally gave up. But just by asking the Japanese Army to consider the airdrop, you can see how big the deficit is.

Sun Liren didn't take the premise of the battle too seriously, so he naturally agreed to Chu Tingchang's plan, he thought about taking one step at a time, it was nothing more than sending sappers to repair the pontoon bridge first, even if Chu's prediction was not effective, it would be useful.

According to the division of Chu Tingchang's war zone. His troops, passing through Misoolam into Chin State, occupy the plains west of the Rakhine Mountains and threaten the whole of Rakhine State from a high position. As far as the terrain of northern Burma is concerned, it is a fairly flat place, which is conducive to the southward movement of mechanized troops, in fact, if the logistics are guaranteed, you can fight all the way along the Qingdun River to Ren'anqiang, which is almost the route of the 33rd Division to the north at that time. If this step is achieved, the 5th Army, which occupies the initiative, can consider attacking Mandalay to the east according to the battlefield situation, or taking Rangoon directly to the south, and the enemy can only deal with it passively.

In the plan, Sun Liren crossed the Qingdun River to the east and established a bridgehead into the mountainous areas of northern Burma, first threatening Yingduo, Liao Yaoxiang out of New Pingyang, it is said that the Japanese army confronting New Pingyang has only one squadron, and the 15th Army is overwhelmed and has no extra manpower and material resources to defend the north. Once Sun and Liao opened up a joint army in the north and south, they would have the opportunity to cross the Savage Mountains and seize Myitkyina, and if the national army in Songshan fought at this time, the two armies might join forces in northern Burma. In this way, the situation in Myanmar is decided. Of course, just by comparing on the map, Chu Tingchang's attack route was much farther, but if you refer to the terrain, he threw all the most terrifying mountains to Sun Liren. You only need to face the Rakhine Mountains, and once you cross it, it is almost a smooth road.

The two of them decided on a strategy to hand over the report to the U.S. liaison officer to send to Stilwell, because the radio technology at this time could not send the map, and the plan with the map could only be delivered by plane, no matter what the Allied command said, at least 48 hours later, Chu Tingchang did this is equivalent to cutting the first and then the prelude. He knew that his vision was longer than that of everyone in the Allied Command, so he must not be limited by their short-sightedness, and he concealed his true strategic intentions in the hope of creating a fait accompli for the favorable situation in the future.

Completed the three-way march, three points in the tent of Myanmar, Chu Tingchang left with his hands behind his back, and when he arrived at the door of the tent, he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed three times before getting into the jeep, and he didn't know what to do. Sun Lirenye was stunned by this strange person, and said that Chu Tingchang had insight into the heavens, and his wisdom was close to the demon, and he was working with him today, and his plans were really unfathomable but inexplicable. Just because the Japanese army will withdraw tomorrow, he dares to pack a ticket. If a staff officer under his command said such a nonsense that had no basis in intelligence and was completely speculative, he would definitely be driven out by a big slap in the face, but the person who said this was Chu Tingchang, and Sun Liren did not dare to ignore it, so he hurriedly sent scouts to keep an eye on the Japanese troops in the city.

Now there are nursery rhymes circulating in the army: Liu Bang, the clothier, and Kong Ming, the speaker, seem to believe that Chu Tingchang is the reincarnation of Zhuge , of course, there are also saying that Sun Liren is the reincarnation of Bai Qi, and Liao Yaoxiang is the reincarnation of Liao Hua, all of which were packaged and sent by God to save China. Of course, from the folk evaluation of the three people, it is high and low, and it is natural to use Chu Tingchang to compare Zhuge with Zhu Ting, which occupies an absolute height; Sun Liren is still acceptable since he compares himself, but his evaluation of Liao Yaoxiang is not the slightest bit exaggerated. Sun is very clear that he has a huge gap with Chu Tingchang in terms of the number of enemies destroyed and the exchange ratio, of course, it can be attributed to Chu Tingchang's occupation of better American-style equipment, but he can no longer be as before, just due to the luck of this person by relying on the weapon Fire Crane, he reminded himself that he must carefully observe and learn from this person, judging from Chu Qiao's actions to take Ercutta and self-directed and self-acted to drive away Zheng Dongguo, this person is definitely not simple.

Before dark, scouts outside Chittagong observed that the Japanese were reinforcing the fortifications and seemed to be holding on. Sun Liren personally went to the front line and observed across the river for a while, and he couldn't see that the enemy looked like he was about to withdraw, but the truth was the essence of the art of war, so he couldn't draw a simple conclusion. In accordance with the agreement of Chu Tingchang, he began to work 40 kilometers upstream overnight to join the engineers of both sides and start to build a pontoon bridge that could pass through tanks.

In Chittagong, the commander of the 31st Division of the Japanese Army, Vice Admiral Junzaburo Funakoshi, was preparing for a retreat. He had just learned that the retreat of the 2nd Division had been beaten badly, leading to the fall of the 3rd lieutenant general since the start of the war in Burma. This shows how serious the enemy's situation has become, although he was ordered to drag the enemy, but the food is already insufficient, and he can not continue to wait for the enemy's main force, the tanks of the 200th Division, to arrive in the city.

He ordered that after nightfall, the artillery would shoot all the shells that could not be taken away to the opposite bank, and then launch a counterattack against the enemy on the other side of the river with the main force of the 124th Wing, using the existing river-crossing equipment. This is a deceptive tactic of attacking and defending, and of course it can only be carried out at night when the enemy's reconnaissance planes cannot see clearly.

As the unit had more than a dozen British fortress guns at its disposal, the fire quickly engulfed the positions of the Chinese troops on the opposite bank. Sun Liren hurriedly ordered the forward troops to retreat, avoid enemy fire, and let the enemy cross the river first. The Japanese army was not humble, and the two squadrons quickly crossed the river and launched an attack in depth, and Sun Liren's battalion resisted until midnight, and the enemy retreated, and it seemed that the enemy was by no means a feint but a real play. Sun realized that Chu Tingchang's statement was probably miscalculated, he listened to Chu's words, adjusted the main force to the marching formation and prepared to cross the pursuit, but he did not expect the Japanese army to counterattack. Immediately redeploy the main forces back to block the Japanese attack.

Under the moonlight, Lieutenant General Funakoshi, standing on the hillside, the opposite bank was still fighting fiercely, he watched his main force quietly march south, and couldn't help but sigh, after all, the success of bullying the enemy was only temporary, and he didn't know where this walk was. He was determined to follow the old path of the 2nd Division first, and then, at the right time, change the course abruptly, in order to avoid the ambush and harassment of the enemy who had already run to the front. In addition, he had also thought of a plan to divide the whole into parts and entrust the command, and had already distributed all the food to the individuals, and each brigade had drawn up its own route in advance, so that the enemy would not be defeated and fall into the chaos of the whole group.

Funakoshi completely saw the crux of the chaos caused by the defeat of the 2nd Division, and immediately took countermeasures. The only thing he could do now was to bring all of his 10,000 men back to Rakhine State, which had been a long distance of two months during the pursuit in northern Burma, and now the situation is much worse.

He left the sappers behind, and blew up all the weapons and baggage British artillery that could not be taken away before dawn, but he could not cheapen the Chinese army.

Sun Liren's troops threw in a counterattack and pushed the enemy back, and the enemy did not attack again throughout the night, and the situation seemed to be stabilized. At dawn, lying on the marching bed, Sun Liren, who couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, suddenly heard a series of explosions coming from the direction of Chittagong, he did it violently, and when the second round of explosions came, he knew that Chu Tingchang's prediction had come true, and the enemy was bombing his house and was about to retreat.

A British reconnaissance plane flew over Chittagong, and saw a chain of explosions in the city and the port, and the Japanese had sunk the last few transport ships that could not return, while the last Japanese cavalry outside the city was gathering to run.

The Stuart tank of the 200th Division got on the pontoon bridge and headed for the south bank before Sun Liren's troops at the first time when the pontoon bridge was repaired. When Sun Liren arrived, he found that Chu Tingchang's truck team was on the bridge, and it was not the first time that Chu's troops had robbed the road, but Sun was a little weak after all, and decided to let Chu Tingchang's 5 battalions go first. The so-called poor Kou Mo chases, he doesn't want to blindly engage in pursuit.

Just as the 200th Division launched a river-crossing pursuit, a DC3 aircraft was preparing to take off on the temporary airfield not far from the pontoon. Guo Rugui stood under the plane and shook hands tightly with Tao Mingzhang who saw him off, quite a little sorry.

"This expedition is an eye-opener to be able to witness the whole process of your capture of Kolkata through mobile operations." Guo Rugui said.

"It's a pity that the American weapons are American, not made by us, and even if our China can survive this catastrophe, the road to rejuvenation is still far away." Tao Mingzhang somehow started to complain,

"Why did the name seal say this? You haven't seen that the foreign newspapers have listed the Republic of China and the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union as the top four, and Roosevelt has invited Chiang Gong to participate in the leadership meeting at an appropriate time next year. ”

"I'm studying engineering, and as far as I've seen, these are all fictitious with other people's guns, and it's also fictitious to let the chairman attend the meeting, and the long-term solution is still industry, and if a decent industry is not established, how can we talk about the world's top four?"

"When the battle is over, these will be there."

"How easy is it to say, since the end of the Qing Dynasty for so many years, although there have been continuous external troubles, but there is also a time to peace, why can't we build heavy industry? In my opinion, Jiang Gong walked out of the ten miles of ocean, and the pattern is not so big. ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Guo Rugui lowered his voice and said.

"At this moment, internal and external troubles can arouse some popular morale, and with strong foreign aid, the country can still live with the same enemy and survive for a while; However, when I was a tax policeman, I also saw that even if the front was surprised, the rear was also tight, and bureaucratic capital was always worried about smuggling to make money for the country...... Hey, once the war is over, I am afraid that the trend of corruption will relapse and everything will be empty talk. I am afraid that ten or twenty years later, there will still be collusion between officials and businessmen, corruption from top to bottom, and the people will not have a good livelihood. ”

"In your opinion?"

"I think ......" Tao Mingzhang hesitated, "At present, China has to take the road of Soviet Russia." ”

"These words, that is, I am talking here, do not be for outsiders."