"General, there is also this enemy road construction plan. We killed 12 of the enemy's 12 men. ”

"So, are you sure this is a field road construction unit directly under Iida? Not the sapper brigade of the 55 Division? ”

"I can confirm that the equipment they are carrying is different, they are doing field topographic mapping, not paving roads and bridges, and if it is an engineer brigade, the supreme commander is usually just a lieutenant."

"Oh my God, why is this map of the Japanese more accurate than the British?"

"Because for all these years, the Japanese have been secretly mapping the border area, specifically the east bank of the Sitang River. Their maps of Upper Burma are significantly less accurate. Chu Aiyun on the side added.

"It seems that you have gained something from crossing the river this time. But why did they, with only 2 divisions, dare to devise such a long-term plan to outflank Mandalay? ”

"Because they have the support of the locals, these factors should not be ignored in our troop counts. During this reconnaissance, I saw the scene when the locals mistook us for the Japanese, and I felt that the people here were not as simple and weak as the British told us, and the Burmese people had shown strong feelings of resistance. Jiang Weiguo said.

"Yes, the Japanese will one day incite these emotions for them to come back at the price. But it is imperative that we save Alexander's Rangoon. ”

"Judging from today's reconnaissance, the logistics of the Japanese army are absolutely not optimistic, and they may not be able to invest strong forces to attack Rangoon."

"Actually, I would like them to put in more troops," Stilwell straightened up from the map, a glimmer of light flashing across his glasses, "now that your main armored force has reached 2 companies, the 200th Regiment of the 599th Division will also arrive tomorrow; I can tell you an absolute secret, the Royal 2nd Armored Regiment, the main force of the British 7th Armored Brigade, has also reached Ringanqiang ahead of schedule by marching at night. This is something that the Japanese would never have imagined. ”

"I doubt that the Japanese would never have thought of it." Jiang Weiguo said with a smile, he felt that it was a bit self-deceptive to talk about the secrecy of the march on the land under his feet. He'd come all the way and have a deeper understanding of the people here than Stilwell, and everyone here could be the eyes of the Japanese.

"Well, anyway, we have a total of 150 tanks and armored vehicles, and Japan does not have armored forces yet. This is the cost of our siege of Yangon. ”

"You're going to attack from two fronts?"

"Not bad. From the east to the west, you broke through the enemy's wing, Dabago, the British army opened through Rangoon from Ringanqiang to the east, and Alexander's Anglo-Burmese 1st Army counterattacked from Rangoon. In this way we can either break the siege or annihilate one of the enemy in maneuver, and my goal is a wing; At the moment the enemy's forces are so scattered and so ...... Violating military principles, we should have a great chance. ”

Stilwell spoke in general about his plan, and he had a strong sense of class, but Captain Chiang Weiguo was a special case, not only because of his background, but also because he had earned his trust today.

Chu was well aware that Stilwell's ideas were unrealistic, at least until the task force intervened. The Japanese dared to disperse their forces because of the excellent capabilities of their intelligence system and the confidence that their fighting units would not retreat until they died. Unless there is a special team to support it in terms of intelligence, one hundred and ten tanks will soon be killed by the Japanese infantry who are ready. But there is no place for him to speak.

"I think this plan is feasible, but the tank can't lose the infantry support." Jiang Weiguo said.

"General Du is willing to provide the most elite 599 regiment, which should have experience in coordinating tanks."

"Of course, the 599 regiment is the basic unit of the 200 division, in fact, the independent armored regiment was originally subordinate to the 200 division. There will be no problem with the fit. ”

West of Mandalay, Lin Xiuxuan's group overheard about 10 messages from the Southern authorities that would take action against the railway, but the specific plan was not detailed.

The Japanese army has always been a little hesitant in the military operation against the Yangman railway, and it seems that it has a far-reaching plan. In fact, with only proper guidance from the ground, the Japanese Army Aviation can blow up some key nodes on this railway, such as as as 11 key bridges, and this era actually has its own precision weapon of this era, which is dive bombing. The Japanese army did not blow up the Gongguo Bridge or the Huitong Bridge in Yunnan, which were heavily defended by artillery, but they never attacked the railway. The only explanation is that the Japanese have a long-term mind, they want to seize the railway completely, and blowing up the bridge will make it difficult to capture Burma in the future, and the Japanese love this railway no less than China and Britain.

But now, Iida was clearly afraid of the Chinese troops who were constantly moving south, and judging from the telegrams that came and went, he hoped to at least briefly paralyze the railways and prevent the Chinese from moving south, but not too badly, and the southern authorities increased this request, hoping to gain some intelligence gains at the same time.

According to Lin Xiuxuan's analysis of the telegrams contacted by the Chinese and British troops along the railway, about one regiment of troops moved south every day. Communications generally do not involve numbers, but the approximate strength of troops can be inferred. He had reason to suspect that the enemy might want to take advantage of the opportunity to steal some codebooks for Sino-British communication, or to assassinate high-ranking officers, which would have a profound negative impact on the rest of the campaign.

He could not continue to wait for more conclusive information, as the enemy might not have reported the full plan on the radio. After deploying the communication station to a hidden hill, he left Qin Xiaosu and He Ming in charge of listening and relaying information, and he took the other two to drive a small jeep close to the area south of Mandalay, where the enemy might carry out the plan, to see if he could disrupt the enemy's plot in advance.

Along the way, he found that the defense of the railway by the Chinese and British troops was quite perfect, the armored trains often patrolled the railway with searchlights, and the cavalry patrols in the vicinity appeared periodically, and those guerrillas who were not professionally trained, even if they could get close to the railroad tracks for a short time, had no time to dig the roadbed and bury it*; Unless the personnel of the South Authority do it themselves.

However, before they could reach the railway, the Southern Agency's conspiracy had already been carried out, not to blow up the railroad with * as he had expected, but in a despicable act, the enemy's inner ghost sneaked into the railway signaling system and sent a false signal, causing a night train on the track to crash into a patrolling armored train in the mountainous area north of Pyinwenna at 9 p.m.

Qin Xiaosu overheard the distress call from the derailed train, and then overheard the second-stage action order issued by the nearby Japanese military radio, and he forwarded the information to Lin Xiuxuan.

Since, the enemy still has a second stage, Lin Xiuxuan can't sit idly by, he quickly moved towards the train derailment area, he knows that there have been similar train derailment incidents in history, although the time is not right, but the method is very similar, of course, that time in history, in the end, it was Luo Zhuoying who carried the black cauldron, and most of the memoirs of British and American officers wrote so.

Lin Xiuxuan almost became the first group to arrive at the ready-made. Train cars were scattered across the tracks, and the dead and equipment were scattered everywhere. About half of the people are still able to walk and are actively rescuing, presumably thanks to the fact that both trains slowed down before the collision.

Seeing the sporadic fires in front of me from afar, it was guessed that the nearby rescue troops had arrived, and through the night vision devices, you could see that these people were wearing national army uniforms, but they were all wrapped in white towels around their necks. They left a machine-gun squad on the heights, and the rest moved downward. Lin Xiuxuan immediately realized that these were likely the Japanese spies who carried out the second step of the operation, but the situation was not chaotic at the moment, and it was difficult for his team to respond immediately.

The group of agents quickly rushed down the hill and did not go to the rescue, and the thousands of wounded people who were busy saving themselves did not pay any attention to these people, they took care of themselves through the crowd and climbed into the central carriage, apparently taking advantage of the chaos to steal information or assassinate high-ranking generals.

Soon they appeared through the door again, two of them carrying an unconscious officer, and the men behind them carrying several boxes. It appears that they kidnapped an officer and stole some information. Lin Xiuxuan couldn't make a move here, so as not to mess up the situation, and he took his men to follow closely carefully, preparing to attack this Japanese agent at the right time.

They followed, using night vision devices to track them. The enemy alternated cover in the dark, which prevented the special team from attacking on several occasions. Judging from the way of action, this devil is a veteran of mountain warfare, and he has obviously experienced it in China.

Finally, in the early hours of the morning, this group of devils gradually moved away from the Chinese army in Soushan, and began to relax. And its commander seemed to be a little itchy about the captured information, so he took a break in the forest, and sent several teams as secret posts to scout the surroundings, and several core agents propped up their raincoats on their heads and began to check the documents with flashlights. They think they are foolproof, but these tricks are not so safe when tracked by real hunters.

The special team touched the enemy and prepared for action. Xu Chong first went from the periphery to deal with the enemy sentry that was climbing on the trees. In fact, both thermal imaging and low-light night vision devices have some limitations in the dense jungle area where the background is complex and even the starlight does not leak in, especially when the enemy always climbs the tree in the world, he must always pay attention to the shaking branches to determine the location of each enemy, it is best not to miss it. There was a guy who sat on the branch of the tree and did not move, and from time to time he made a few owl calls that were almost chaotic, and reported his safety to the rear, which made him the first to be exposed, and it seems that these veterans have also improved this kind of communication method after coming to Myanmar, even Xu Chong can't hear the difference with the local birds, he knows that every few hundred kilometers, there will be subtle differences in the calls of the same species of birds.

Using a silencer weapon, he easily knocked out the first one at a distance of 50 meters. However, the corpse rolled down from the branches, crushing many of the branches, making a series of noises.

Sure enough, there was a frightened cry of a wild deer on the other side, which was still imitated by humans. Xu Chong hurriedly replied to the owl's call, and the other party responded again, and he followed the sound to find it. A branch was seen vibrating. A man was standing on it. He was slowly turning his head, obviously listening, obviously a little wary, maybe the response just now was a little off? He didn't know how the Japanese agreed, and in any case, there might be such a mistake.

In the distance, there was a sound of a tree branch being trampled, maybe it was a certain beast, maybe it was Ma Qiang, and the Japanese soldier in the tree raised his gun. Xu Chong's bullets arrived first. The second outlying sentry fell heavily.