Chu Tingchang got in touch with Zhou Youfu on the other side of the river and asked to complete the preparations for the construction of the bridge on the west bank as soon as possible, but Zhou Youfu said that the situation was not good, and after the mutiny of the engineer battalion, Stilwell had stopped all the operations of the engineering troops, and all the personnel were withdrawn from the British army to Ranchi, preparing to send these people to Bombay and then disband. He took over all the equipment discarded by the Americans early, but suffered from the fact that the equipment was damaged a lot, and there was no engineering knowledge under his command.

Chu Tingchang mentioned that Tao Mingzhang studied engineering, so he could let him do this. Zhou Youfu disagreed, he felt that Tao Mingzhang had only been in college for a year, and he was definitely not qualified for this kind of thing. Chu Tingchang didn't talk nonsense with him, and directly sent a telegram to Tao Mingzhang and asked him to try to solve the problem of crossing the river bridge.

In any case, it looks like the army will have to drag on for a few days to cross the river. Stilwell was in a hurry to devise a plan for a paratrooper airborne assault, not to support Chu Tingchang, of course, but to hunt down the mutinous American soldiers. According to British intelligence, that group is now in conjunction with the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, and is located north of the port of Rakhine, 120 kilometers away from Chu Tingchang's troops. The Japanese did not fulfill their promise and immediately sent these traitors to South America, and the base camp felt that they could use them for propaganda activities, so they could not get away for a while, and they may have to stay for a while. According to the new vision of the base camp, some of them will have to go to Tokyo to attend the Greater East Asia Conference as representatives of the United States to complain about American racism.

Stilwell deliberately airdropped a liaison officer to convey his godly plan to Pavilion Chief Chu, hoping that he could fully convince Pavilion Chief Chu to cooperate. In Stilwell's plan, the paratroopers trained in the East Indies were required to carry out an airborne combat mission in advance; In addition, a battalion-sized unit of the 101st Airborne Division, which is training at the North Carolina base, will also participate in the operation. All the causes were because of the order signed by Marshall. The president considered it necessary to once again carry out a political mission that went beyond military objectives, similar to the bombing of Tokyo led by Doolittle a few months ago.

In his letter to Stilwell, Roosevelt wrote: ...... He noted the excellent performance of the Chinese military in the region, but this task must not be left to them alone, which would give the world the illusion that the Chinese punished the traitors to the Americans. This is detrimental to the honor of American soldiers, so he will transfer a group of young people who can be qualified for this task from the 502nd Airborne Regiment of the 101st Division to participate in the operation.

Chu Tingchang was actually not very interested in this kind of action, he felt that in addition to political significance, there was no military value, and now it was not yet the time to attack Shidu, even if he forcibly attacked, he would have to retreat, and he would prematurely expose several offensive channels he had preset. But he is not averse to showing his hand again in front of the whole world. In addition, one of the great advantages of cooperating with the Americans was that they could get rid of the constraints of the British.

He was already feeling more and more pressure from the British, who preferred his forces to turn to northern Burma and cross the Hukang valley floor to attack Myitkyina rather than coastal Rakhine State, which he certainly did not want. His offensive schedule was completely different from that of the British. He hoped to sweep across Southeast Asia in 43 and completely wipe out the conspiracy of the traversers from the foundation. He also hoped that by the end of the war, the Chinese army would have a de facto presence in Burma and even in the East Indies, so that it could be avoided once and for all that the British would take advantage of the unreasonable borders drawn by the British to create territorial troubles after independence. Of course, the third purpose is that the more troops he can control at the moment, the shorter the civil war will be in the future. He had long noticed that the student corps was inherently sympathetic to the left.

Stilwell did not bring a specific plan of action other than a general plan, which shows Stilwell's trust in Chu Tingchang and hopes that he will come up with a specific attack plan. Chu Ting proudly presented a list of the equipment he needed, including a tank that was transported by a glider. Stilwell's liaison officer denied the existence of such equipment in the United States, and he believed that the Chinese must have made a mistake by lack of common sense, how could tanks go to the sky? Chief Chu asked the major to immediately send a report to his boss, and he assured that such a thing existed.

At this moment, Zhao Xiaoli's search team was still searching in the mountains, and did not find the Japanese commander, but found many headless corpses without clothes. The locals have a tradition of headhunting, and snatching the clothes of the dead is not within the scope of their moral self-discipline, so it is impossible to confirm whether Ichiki Kiyoshi is dead or alive, and if Ichiki knows shame, he may have found a place to commit suicide. For Chu Tingchang, the death of a wood is actually a bad thing. Because the remaining thousands of people in the Ichiki detachment may be led by a more sensible commander. The most frightening thing about Chief Chu is this kind of commander who has a single tactic and only emphasizes the spirit.

Tianjin Beichen. Lin Xiuxuan entered the town, slowly passed the gate of the old mansion, secretly observed the guards on both sides, and suddenly heard a commotion inside, and then saw the side door open, and a wooden box was thrown out. There was also a banner with the words "Little Fairy" written on it. Then a person dressed as a fortune teller was pushed and shoved out by the people inside.

I saw a butler look like him, throwing a few pieces of money on the ground, and standing there with his hands on his hips.

"My lord is looking for a gentleman, not a master like you, who thinks you can deal with it with two words of nonsense? My husband is a three-year-old child? Hurry up and get the money out. ”

"I'm a well-known iron-mouthed person in Baoding Mansion, how can you smear people's innocence out of thin air?"

The gentleman pleaded his case while picking up the money, but the housekeeper had ignored him and closed the door and went in. The fortune teller picked up the thing and cursed hatefully, and left by himself.

Lin left quickly, found a hotel on the west side of the street, and found a room by the window on the second floor to live in first, so that it was convenient to observe the Wen family's old mansion.

After registering and going upstairs, he saw an elderly blind man groping in the corridor and walking, and it seemed that he couldn't find his way back.

He sent the old man into the room, only to see that there was already a descendant sitting in the mosquito net in the next room, and there was a small pretense of "Li Banxian" in the corner of the wall.

Lin Xiuxuan withdrew, returned to his guest room to settle down, asked the guy to bring hot water, washed it in front of the mirror on the wall, and shaved his beard by the way. The inn was very shabby, and when he shaved, he could hear the conversation next door very clearly.

Just listen to a young voice over there:

"Second uncle, I'm afraid the Wen family can't go. Just now, another fortune teller blasted out. In my opinion, this traitor is a thief, and he doesn't rub sand in his eyes, so you might as well still be able to sing on the Tianjin Weila Huqin. ”

"I'll let your kid lead the way, and I'll talk about frustration along the way, what's wrong with the traitor, won't the traitor give money."

"You think that money is easy to earn?"

"Not to mention the side, I bought this outfit and spent a thousand yuan to prepare a ticket, which hasn't opened yet. You're backing me down? ”

"Do you know fortune telling? Do you really think that blind people are born with this craft? ”

"Hey, it's all Jianghu rice, don't you just make up two sentences? Isn't he afraid that the Japanese will lose and eat melons in the future? Let's deal with him according to this number of ways. Say something about Piri Yangqiu, it seems to be true or not, and if you should give him relief, you will also receive a reward. ”

Lin Xiuxuan almost didn't have fun, this person is blind and not blind. It seems that he has studied the traitor and has done his homework.

"Is the traitor's money so easy to cheat? I can inquire clearly, he is in a bad mood these days, the one in the morning is thrown out by people, you are old and blind and your legs and feet are not good, when the time comes, there is a three-long and two-short, and there are no children, and I have to send you to the end. ”

"What about you? Really not going? ”

"Go, you have to follow me simply, let's go and tell him tomorrow: the Japanese are grasshoppers after the autumn, and he Wen Shizhen is the tail of a rabbit, just by virtue of the bad things done by his old man, he is said to be a half-immortal, and ten true immortals can't be exceeded, and he will have to eat guns in the future."

The conversation next door was deadlocked, although the words of the afterlife were not good, but the old man obviously listened to it, he didn't seem to know how to tell fortunes, he just wanted to cheat money, but when he got here, he knew that the Wen family's money was not so easy to cheat.

As soon as Lin Xiuxuan heard that there was a door, he got up and went to the next door and knocked on the door. Then he opened the door and saw that it was the one who had just sent the second uncle back, so he nodded politely. Lin Xiuxuan walked in and placed a stack of banknotes on the table.

Early the next morning, Lin Xiuxuan wore a gray robe, carried a wooden box, and carried Li Banxian's little banner to the street. The cheongsam was a ready-to-wear that he had rented from a tailor shop at the end of the street yesterday, and the other things for use were bought from the old man. The uncle and nephew didn't wait for the next day, and went back in the afternoon after counting the store money. They are also worried that they will repent.

Lin walked to the door of the Wen family's old house. Take out the recommended documents of the Jiangxi General Hall of the Congenital Dao, the puppet army standing guard at the door has seen too much, and knows what it is doing, so he hurriedly passed it, and after a while, the housekeeper came out, with a smile on his face, which was completely different from the fierce and evil look he saw yesterday.

The housekeeper followed people to help Lin Xiuxuan unload the heavy load on his shoulders and greeted Lin into the courtyard. The butler looked at it secretly, and only felt that this person was so extraordinary in every move he made, and he was definitely not the cunning master who had shrunk at a glance in the last few days.

"This gentleman, you're an innate Dao, but you can also study the number of fate?"

"Oh, my innate Dao was originally also a Taoist who was born to seek immortals, but I also delved into some medical divination astrological signs, strange door spells, whether it is curing diseases and prescribing prescriptions, fortune-telling and avoiding disasters, they are all small ways, and they are not a problem."

"That's great, my lord is bored these days, and I'm trying to find someone to discuss some numerology days."

Lin Xiuxuan followed the housekeeper to the side of the guest hall.

"But the master is waiting for the Japanese call in the study at this time, and please wait here for a while, and when the master is free, I will reply immediately, please go."

"Thank you then."

Lin was about to lift his feet to enter, but found that there was already someone sitting inside, a couple holding a child in their arms.

"Oh, this is the old man's family? Can I avoid it? ”

The housekeeper pulled Lin Xiuxuan down the corridor slightly, avoiding the people inside: "Hey, it's not a relative of the old man, in fact, it's the same clan that can't be beaten by eight poles, the previous generation and the old lady have some old days, and recently went to the west to do business and lost money, so I took advantage of my son's full moon door." No, I'm also waiting for the master to have time to see him. said that it was a child's full moon and wanted to meet Shibo, but in fact, he came to ask for an errand from the principal of an elementary school. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be an old visit. Okay, so I'll just wait here a little longer? ”

"Don't pay attention to them, the master is upset, I guess I won't see them today, you sit down first, and immediately order someone to watch the tea."