In the 419 command module, the commissar constantly asked the drone to reduce the altitude and zoom in on the field of view, hoping to make up for the information gap caused by the enemy's radio silence. He could roughly see the military flag covered with tassels at the end of the honor guard, which was a Japanese division flag that the world had rarely seen. Because before the Japanese army perished, there was a strange custom of burning the military flags above the wing, so not many people knew what the division and regimental flags looked like, but the gilded flagpole revealed its identity.

"Lao Zheng, didn't the 33rd Division all land seven or eight days earlier?"

"Then this must be a new division. You look at those tanks, it could be a workhorse. If you want to engage in radio silence, it must be an important pawn. ”

"I studied the port throughput capacity of Mawlamyine, and it was very reluctant to supply the two divisions, once this limit was exceeded, the transportation capacity would be reduced by one another, and for every more devil who went ashore, there would be more than 100 catties of grain and one more mouth to eat."

"yes, I don't know what their calculations are, maybe they are confident that they can take down Yangon, the best deep-water port in Myanmar, in a few days? Well, be sure to pass the situation here to the task force so that they know in advance. ”

Unbeknownst to Lieutenant General Muguchi, there was a plane above his head staring at him. He walked past the flag with his teeth and claws in his head high, saluted it, and took the flag that the emperor had given him wherever his headquarters was.

"I've finally waited for you. Great work. ”

Iida, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Burma, took the initiative to extend his hand to Mukoutian.

"Your Excellency, as soon as I heard that the Chinese army that had fought at Kunlun Pass had moved south along the railway, we couldn't help but want to come here."

"Oh, so desperate to go into battle?"

"To tell you the truth, when I was in Singapore, the commander of the Matsui Division talked to me about the 5th Army of the Chinese army, and he still looked a little apprehensive, and every time he talked about the losses of the Nakamura Brigade, he sighed, every time it was how fierce the Soviet and Russian artillery was, hehe......"

The two walked side by side through a row of tanks, looking unusually intimate.

"It seems that Japan's No. 1 Steel Army also has enemies with grudges." Iida said, secretly provoking competition.

"Yes, I whispered to the commander of the Matsui Division at that time, I will definitely avenge you when I come this time, guess what Matsui said: He said: What? What the? ”

"What?" Iida also stopped, his face full of doubt.

"Huh. One of Matsui's ears was deafened by the Russian 122-mm cannon that time, so he couldn't hear it. ”

The drone suddenly burst into laughter when it saw two Japanese generals, and he didn't know what kind of wind he smoked.

"This time I am here to completely annihilate the Chinese 5th Army." Mu Tiankou suddenly stopped, and straightened up, "Your Excellency, please hand over the task of the main attack on Rangoon to other troops, and I only need to deal with the main force of the Chinese army in the north." ”

"That's exactly what I mean. Remember, our logistical emptiness can only win quickly, and this is why I asked for your unit to be secretly transferred here. ”

"Your Excellency, please don't worry about logistics, Japanese soldiers with a noble mission in their hearts, even if they don't eat, can grit their teeth and destroy the enemy in front of them."

"It's not that bad. Suzuki has already investigated that the four seasons here are like spring, so the Burmese people sow seeds every season and have grain stored at home at all times, which is very different from China, which is very different from the annual spring famine in China. In China, military rations could only be collected in the autumn, and it was necessary to spend troops to sweep them. ”

"It would be great if that were the case. I think the locals will be happy to be able to contribute to the common prosperity of Greater East Asia. ”

"Well, we help them get rid of the British, and in no way allow them to be ungrateful. The year before last, the Southern Agency had already printed three denominations of local military stamps, 1 rupee, 5 rupees and 10 rupees, which had been piled up in warehouses in Chiang Mai, and had begun to mold, but they should be ready for use immediately. ”

Jiang Weiguo, who was sleeping in the barracks of Lianglibin, was woken up by Du Yuming's phone call in the middle of the night, and he listened impatiently to Du Yuming's ramblings, as if to say that the main battalion of the motorized infantry regiment directly under him was attacked by the enemy in the middle of the road, the railway was derailed, and the battalion commander Lin Chengxi was missing. Then Du Yuming told him that it had been decided that he would take over the post of battalion commander. Considering that the battalion had suffered certain losses, the command decided to merge the battalion with the reconnaissance company, leave the second line for repair, and wait for the 200th Division to fight first, see if the enemy in front of it would make a decision on the next move.

Jiang Weiguo sat up, and at this moment he really came to his senses, and he realized that the time had come to realize his ambitions. Of course, his mind must be completely opposite to Du Yuming, Du Yuming only hopes to quickly find a vacancy for him to be promoted to a higher level, so that he can leave such a dangerous place as the reconnaissance company, instead of letting him go to the front line to fight. In fact, according to Du Yuming's thoughts, the armored regiment and the motorized infantry battalion themselves are treasures that cannot be easily dispatched. He fought a real battle in Kunlun Pass, and the equipment has not been replenished for more than two years, and he does not want to fight his family in Myanmar again.

Chu Aiyun hid in the barracks and secretly received the relay of communications from far away in central Burma, and had just learned that the enemy had made a desperate move, and that a third division with an unknown number and about 60 tanks had landed in Mawlamyine, which meant that the enemy in front of him would far exceed the most pessimistic estimate of the Allied General Staff. He suddenly had a premonition that the plan that Jiang Weiguo had revealed to him, that China and Britain would each send an armored army and attack east and west together, was no longer feasible, and if it was continued, it would likely lead the Allies to a disaster. He knew very well that the key point of the Burma campaign was to exchange space for time, and as long as it lasted until the rainy season at the end of May, the Japanese could only stop advancing. Timely is the kind of fiasco in the original history, and strategically it can still be said to be a crushing victory, because the Japanese army did not strangle the last line of communication in China in the end. But now that the campaign has to be carried out in advance, things are uncertain.

Jiang Weiguo almost kicked in the door, and almost saw the LCD display with flashing numbers, but fortunately, Chu Aiyun quickly hid the radio under the bed.

"Pavilion commander, let me tell you good news, I have been promoted to the commander of the motorized infantry battalion, and you will be the company commander."

"What ......"

"The Japanese army in Burma has no armored troops, and the time has come for you and me to make a contribution. I have just thought of a plan, listen to me, you and I will each take a company, and we will break through from the enemy's weak point that we have detected yesterday, lead directly to the enemy's rear, and turn him upside down. Although it is only a partial teacher, it can make the devil take care of one thing and lose the other. ”

Jiang Weiguo gushed endlessly, looking overly excited.

When it was dark, Lin Xiuxuan drove a jeep directly onto the highway parallel to the Yangman Railway. This time they wore the uniforms of the Nationalist Army (forged by the Japanese) and were not at all afraid of being inspected by the Chinese and British military police. Needless to say, in such a chaotic situation, they simply did not have the information to verify the Chinese troops going south, and their fluent Chinese dialect naturally made it easier for them to deal with the interrogation of the Chinese army. The documents of the 96th Division forged by the Yugoslav authorities carried by them did not lose He Ming's craftsmanship and could completely guarantee unimpeded traffic. The 96th Division has indeed entered Burma, but at present, only the advance troops are receiving British supplies in a relatively backward place, and it is unlikely to run into them, which is why the Japanese agents all carry this division's ID.

The U.S. Army 1000 radio they carried was only a battalion and company level product, and it didn't look obtrusive when it was installed in a jeep, but in fact, the interior had been dismantled and installed with their own things, and they could complete communication with Qin Xiaosu by connecting the whip antenna.

In the morning, they had already bumped into the gendarmes of the 5th Army at the intersection, and reported that the advance wing of the 96th Division had come to receive British supplies, and the other party was envious that they had gotten the American jeep so quickly, and they were still riding horses on patrol every day. Obviously, the best cover is language, and even the most attentive Japanese spies will not be able to learn to this extent.

The gendarmes also enthusiastically pointed out to them the location of the British oil depot, and they swaggered over to resupply the oil so that the Indian soldiers in charge of the oil depot did not even dare to ask.

Lin Xiuxuan believed that the allies were still in the dark about the enemy. The Allies calculated how ambitious the Japanese might have been based on port capacity, so they miscalculated. He must now be within 15 kilometers of the Allied headquarters and have two-way communication with Chu Aiyun. This is not difficult, even if it is hundreds of kilometers away, Qin Xiaosu can judge the location by detecting the radio group. So he knew much earlier than the Yugoslav authorities where each of the Allied regiments was located.

When their car drove to a high place, they could see a train heading south on the railway a kilometer away, and behind the billowing steam, a military flag was waving in the wind, it was the flag of the 599th Regiment of the 200th Division.

Last night, the British army quickly dispatched an armoured train, and with the cooperation of 20 elephants, cleared the overturned obstacles on the railway, so that the troop transport train was once again unimpeded. Such efficiency made both the anxious Stilwell and the cautious Du Yuming inclined to believe that the superiority in strength was always on the side of the Allies.

"Team leader, the Japanese army has begun to attack the periphery of Rangoon." Xu Chong, who was sitting in the passenger seat, said.

"Is the Navy coming?"

"Yes, a fleet of destroyers sailed up to the edge of the Irrawaddy River and shelled it. The British feared a possible amphibious landing. ”

"As soon as they fight like this, they will inevitably lead the reinforcements from two routes to the south in advance. In my opinion, Iida's plan was not necessarily to attack Rangoon, it was meat on the board, and his focus should be on eliminating the main forces of the Northern Allies in advance. ”

"Can you turn the tables?"

"There is not much chance, even if we can send the real information in, Chu Aiyun is only a lieutenant, and he may not be able to play any role."

"What then?"

"I'm thinking that Chen Zhiping, the military commander who follows the deputy captain's ass all day, may be able to help."

"Military commander, all that nonsense? All day long, I was deceived by the half-truths and half-truths of the southern organs. ”

"Perhaps, let's make a bureau and pass on the true information through him, after all, he is the stationmaster of the major general, and his words have much more weight than Chu Aiyun, a student behind the enemy, and Chu Aiyun himself is also under suspicion."

"They suspect him of being a Japanese agent."

"Not really, probably suspecting that he is pro-CCP. Don't talk about that, Ma Qiang, you take out our map that shows the location of the enemy's spy station, and I'll study how to get started. ”

Later, Ma Qiang immediately turned out a map and handed it to Lin Xiuxuan, which densely marked the locations of some of the enemy's radio stations that had been measured. The Japanese military radio stations were only available for a short time to avoid the measuring equipment of the era, and in fact the British did not seem to have bothered to look for them, although the task force paid special attention to these situations.

"You see, this place is 27 kilometers away from Shi's headquarters, and about 10 communications are sent out every day, and the location is basically fixed."