Stilwell was already under the four-wheeled search vehicle. The deputy captain turned around, just looked condescendingly at the old man below, and hurriedly saluted.

"I really didn't expect them to send you to be the company commander of the reconnaissance unit, it's completely Chinese-style nonsense. Why didn't they raise your rank? ”

Stilwell said with a smile, the whole process was in English, and the speed of speech was very fast, his words sounded very sour, Chu Aiyun ignored him, which made Stilwell sure that the person in front of him actually couldn't understand what he was saying.

"I must warn you, Lieutenant, that your superiors have miscalculated by sending you for all their propaganda purposes; I don't need third-rate actors here, everyone has to be close enough to be able to see how many nostrils the Japanese have, you know? ”

"Yes."

"It seems that you didn't understand my English to answer so easily." He smiled and shook his head, "I've heard too much about the cowhide of the 5th Army, and being able to casually hire a person who was a common man half a year ago as a company commander is definitely the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen." ”

"Yes."

"Hell, if only the translation were here, I really don't want to see this fool just say 'yes'."

"I'm sure my deputy company commander understands you."

Jiang Weiguo with a German steel helmet, out of the turret of the armored car, his military appearance is more strict than the Stevie who is not buttoned on his shirt, the British soldier standing guard next to the station, looked up sharply, almost fell off the platform, until a second later I realized that it was actually a Chinese, not Rommel from Africa all the way here.

Stilwell lifted his glasses, not recognising who this person was, but it was familiar. In his image, there could not be a company commander in the Nationalist army who could speak English, but this man's English still had a slight southern German accent. Major Merrill recognized the man before he did, and for the last month he had been compiling reports on the Kuomintang regime for the president, including various black materials and family photographs of Chiang collected by the embassy in Beijing. He quickly whispered a few words in Stilwell's ear.

"It turned out to be Captain Chiang, I didn't expect you to appear on the front line at all. Can you come down and speak? Stilwell kept his composure and didn't look too surprised, of course, he was also a little dissatisfied with Jiang Weiguo and Chu Aiyun standing on a high place looking at him.

The two jumped out of the chariot and shook hands with the major general and the major next to him. Stilwell was arrogant, but he didn't care about Chu Aiyun's full of mobile phone.

"Captain, now we have a problem, we have to figure out how many troops the Japanese have deployed in the front 25 kilometers, but they sent you, and they gave me a problem."

"I'm just the most ordinary Chinese soldier, and that's what I'm here for."

"But it's a task that's not for you."

"I'm not going, do I want to let the repair company go?" Jiang Weiguo laughed.

"General, I heard your concern just now, my deputy company commander and I are not here to act. We are here to reconnoiter the enemy situation for the 599th Regiment of Commander Liu. ”

"I hope you know how dangerous this mission is." Stilwell said that of course the previous ridicule of Chu Aiyun was true, but he was indeed a little jealous of the safety of the person in front of him.

"Rest assured, sir, I'm not the kind of officer who has no brains, I know how to scout, how to get out of it. Just leave it to me. ”

More than 300 kilometers away, Lin Xiuxuan's group was listening to the movement of Japanese troops near Yangon. The Japanese Army had just changed its codebook a month earlier, so it was in a state of impunity; Japanese mathematicians evaluated Japan's hit code and concluded that it would take 2 months to crack the relatively simple army code. Of course, Qin Xiaosu will be able to compress the effective period expected by the Japanese to about one minute.

Due to the poor mountains and rivers in Burma, the progress of erecting telephone lines was seriously delayed, so the command of the 15th Army relied heavily on radio. Messages from Iida were received by the task force.

In the process of receiving and deciphering the message, a signal from the co-captain was also received. The device he was carrying with him was programmed to automatically send a signal at regular intervals, which could have been picked up by the task force if it happened to be nearby.

Qin Xiaosu intercepted the signals sent three times in a row, and each time the direction was different. Therefore, it is judged that the co-captain should be on some kind of fast vehicle, driving from north to south. Referring to the effective distance of the signal, it is not difficult to find that the biggest possibility is to go south along the Yangman Railway, but I don't know where to go back. Lin Xiuxuan was going to send Ma Qiang to drive a jeep to the vicinity of Mandalay to eavesdrop on the railway signal on the underground cable to determine where the train stopped. However, Qin Xiaosu promptly monitored several telegrams sent by the agents of the Yugoslav agency hidden near Mandalay. The telegram detailed all the information he wanted, and it said that a small detachment of nine small turretless tracked vehicles and four two-wheeled reconnaissance vehicles was heading south along the railway. The Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun clearly visible on the armored vehicle, the tactical number has been camouflaged, but judging from the equipment, it belongs to the 5th Army. Finally, it was also informed that the train would go directly to the forefront of the company. The next to arrive was the 5th Regiment of the 599th Army, which is currently waiting for the bus in Lashio.

Subsequently, Qin Xiaosu again intercepted a telegram sent by the Yugoslav authorities to the headquarters of the 15th Army, informing that the advance team of the national army may be involved in an important person, and the rumors obtained so far indicate that it may be a son of Chiang to the front, and there may be an important figure of the American army, because the commander of the 1st Anglo-Burmese Infantry Brigade Fakai was monitored, and asked the British engineers to build an airfield near Liang Libin, and some jeeps arrived four days ago, and the drivers were wearing American uniforms.

It seems that the intelligence of the whole Myanmar is really a mess, and the Allied side is completely infiltrated by the enemy, but this point also has a good side for Lin Xiuxuan, after he lost the support of large drones, the South Agency became his main source of intelligence.

He has even completed a map of spy stations in northern Myanmar, marking out the locations that often appear. Of course, by eavesdropping on the Japanese cables, we can also have a general understanding of the deployment of the Independence Army. Below Suzuki, the Independence Army, which was included in the register, had a total of 18 detachments, numbered by numbers, and numbered more than 20,000 people.

It is not difficult to guess that Chu Aiyun should have gone south with the reconnaissance company. If he did act, he would undoubtedly face great risks, he knew that Iida was deployed, about half of his troops were blocking possible reinforcements in the north, and the Allies did not know anything about it, and if he took a mere chariot company and went south along the railway for a kilometer or two, he would be killed.

Now he can only broadcast the information he has about the deployment of the Japanese army to the direction where Chu Aiyun is located, even if he can't complete the communication, he believes that his equipment is enough to receive the information unilaterally.

Not far from the railway, Stilwell spread out a map on the slightly sloping front armor plate of the 221 armored car. Together with Jiang Weiguo, he was working on the first plan, and they marked a dozen villages in letters on the route of the advance, which Stilwell wanted to figure out, and could see that all the villages were concentrated on both sides of the railway.

In the name of repairing the car, Chu Aiyun hid in the woods not far away, wanting to see if the equipment had recorded any information. In fact, after so many days without receiving a signal from the task force, he has begun to despair. But just as he was secretly looking, the LCD began to stir up text. It's a concise piece of information, paired with a digital map. Due to limited bandwidth, the communication went through a total of 30 seconds and then stopped.

He knew about Lin's scattering communication plan, which needed to be aligned at a certain angle, so the task force must have known where he was, and from the targeted information he sent, they knew their situation.

Although there is no information on the enemy's weapon configuration, in terms of troops, there is at least a complete wing, which lies in an area of about 1,000 square kilometers in front, and even if the 599th Regiment of the 200th Division arrives in the next few days, I am afraid that it will not be able to break through. But fortunately, I have the first-hand information in time. The enemy's intelligence superiority made their deployment too extreme, and they were completely waiting to annihilate the 599th Regiment on both sides of the railway, and on the east bank of the Xitang River, there were no troops.

By the time he returned to the company, Stilwell was gone. Jiang Weiguo was stopping in front of the map to study, a little worried.

"Deputy Lian, you came just in time, General Stilwell and I have already prepared a preliminary plan, you can take a look."

Chu Aiyun hurried over, looked at it a few times, and said that he was going to die. Stilwell's plan was to split the reconnaissance company into three platoons and march along both sides of the railroad at dawn to attack three villages each.

"Sir, why do you want to divide the troops?"

"I didn't have enough time, so I had to do it. While the Japanese were still asleep, they would withdraw after a fight, and General Roo's aerial reconnaissance unit would arrive at the same time to see from the air the enemy's movements in the rear. Once the investigation is clear, the 599th regiment can open a front, which can be regarded as a relief for Alexander. ”

"Attack from the front with our armored vehicles that are not as wide as a finger? Isn't that stupid? Chu Aiyun questioned, of course he couldn't just say that the three platoons would be killed by crossfire in a few minutes.

Chu Ai's words aroused Jiang Weiguo's worries, but in fact, he also found that Stilwell's plan to go south along the railway was too direct, and it was impossible for the direct Japanese to guess it, but because he wanted to save face for the Chinese soldiers, he did not ask questions.

"There's a problem with timing, you think, it's surprisingly quiet at dawn, and a platoon of CV33 sorties, which can be heard from 300 meters away. There is no suddenness to speak of. ”

"But only in this way can the enemy move forces from depth."

"How many Japanese troops can be mobilized by only fighting on the surface? Besides, if aerial reconnaissance is useful, why didn't you see the Japanese coming on their own last month? It came early, it was still dark, it was late, and the Japanese cart passed. Do you believe in the ability of the British to work together? ”

"If you have any ideas, just say, I don't have a class here." Jiang Weiguo realized that the deputy company commander must have a vision.

"Have you ever thought about crossing the Seokdo River at night, driving along the river from the east and turning the Japanese upside down? In this way, whether it is aerial reconnaissance or the British radio monitoring in Rangoon, they can take advantage of the chaos to obtain more accurate information on the enemy's deployment and number. Of course, he knew very well that by avoiding the railway, he avoided the main force of the Japanese army.

"Just one of us?"

"No, there are too many companies, those CV33s are too moving, and the body is too low to cross the river, so don't go, just use the 221 tank. Scouting, a pair of eyes is enough, and it's easy to do bad things if you go too much. ”

"Let me think about it." Jiang Weiguo felt that the deputy company commander had said a plan that was too bold for him to imagine, but his intuition told him that the plan was feasible. When the Germans invaded Poland, he was in charge of pushing east along the Oder River from the border, and the Poles were deployed along the main route of the division's possible attack, and the key points were buried.* But the vanguard of the division, crossing the Oder River, and advancing rapidly from the north bank, did not suffer much loss in the attack. However, the main force of the follow-up leveling was resisted and lost some equipment.

"Is it possible to cross the river at night?"

"Rest assured, General Du and I have consulted the hydrological data of the British Xitang River, in the wide place, the water flow is relatively gentle, and the water level is also low, especially in this month, there are many places that can cross the river, and I have marked them; And the moon phase of these two days ...... In the second half of the night, it would fall below the horizon, which would be very good for a covert crossing, and I could take a car to take the lead and make the whole platoon a trail. ”