762 Field reconnaissance

The train slowly drove towards the front platform, and you could see a large number of anti-aircraft guns deployed by the Japanese troops around it. A complete anti-aircraft defense system was formed, and around the position, there were quite a few wrecks of fallen Allied aircraft. It can be seen that it is impossible to bomb at low altitudes with relatively accurate altitudes, and the error of high-altitude bombing is measured in kilometers, so the Allies have not been able to destroy this transport center of the enemy.

The armoured train drove to a platform and stopped there. There were no Japanese troops on the platform, and several similar armored vehicles were parked on the surrounding lines.

According to the Japanese army, the task of defending the platform was also carried out by the railway troops, and the general troops were not close to this place, and the railway troops were repairing the railways everywhere, so naturally there was no time to deploy troops in a heavily guarded place like Chiang Mai.

The rumbling of artillery in the distance heralded the beginning of another attack by Chu Tingchang, which must have been the most terrifying thing for the Japanese troops in Chiang Mai, and they should have had no time to pay attention to the strange arrival of a certain train.

Xu Chong looked around from the shooting hole, and in front of the platform, there was a turnout trigger, so it was not a problem for the armored train to maneuver. He looked around again, and there weren't too many Japanese soldiers. These diesel locomotives do not need to be filled with water and coal, so the Japanese do not care about it.

Lin Xiuxuan and Qin Xiaosu went down to the platform, preparing to conduct reconnaissance, and their reconnaissance results will be transmitted to Xu Chong through the drone, and then his radio station will contact Chu Tingchang, hoping not to miss any fighters that appear in time.

Lin Xiuxuan pretended to be a wounded soldier with a bandage on his head, and his rank was a senior soldier, this rank made him feel inconvenient, he liked a higher military rank, and there were many advantages to take advantage of pretending to be an officer, such as mixing into a Japanese army unit without being interrogated, and the superior soldier was almost far away. Qin Xiaosu's military rank is a private, which is in line with his image of carrying a backpack.

The two left the platform one after the other, and they were going to follow the established plan, looking for the enemy headquarters in Chiang Mai and waiting for an opportunity to sabotage. The Japanese command in Chiang Mai was largely based on telephone lines, which also prevented Chu Tingchang or 419 from finding their headquarters. So this work has to be left to ground agents like Lin Xiuxuan.

The telephone lines that are all over the street can be eavesdropped. But how easy is it to find the command in a huge place? Don't you know if this telephone line in front of you leads to a squadron headquarters or a division headquarters? It was a waste of time to peel back the cocoon, and time was what the 5th Army lacked.

Walking down the street, Lin found that hiding was not a problem, there were wounded soldiers like him everywhere, some on crutches, some covered in bandages, and some one-eyed dragons. Their sabotage on the railroad not only prevented the Japanese troops from the south, but also caused a large number of wounded Japanese soldiers to not get out.

He and Qin Xiaosu hid into the crowd, hoping to hear the news. The wounded Japanese soldiers squatting on the side of the street basking in the sun came from various units, and they are currently under the control of their respective field hospitals, and there is no timely news. Lin eavesdropped on it, only to know that Noda's division headquarters had been shifting, mainly following the change in the focus of Chu Tingchang's attack. He asked Qin Xiaosu to check the communication line alone to see how it was going, and he continued to sneak into the field hospital and eavesdrop on some news, the wounded soldiers came from various units, and it was not easy to expose their identities, and they talked a lot. Both of them carry IR identification strips that can be tracked by drones, so they are not afraid of dispersion.

The Japanese army set up six field hospitals in Chiang Mai City, and one field hospital of high specifications. Every place was overcrowded, Lin walked through the wounded soldiers, listened to all kinds of news, and observed the movement of Japanese troops around him, he noticed that the morale of the Japanese army was not very high, mainly in the legend of two things.

Allied planes were constantly attacking the railways, and they were particularly fond of hitting trains carrying wounded soldiers with red cross flags on their roofs, so Lieutenant General Nishiojo had already ordered that the pilots should not be taken alive. The pilots who were caught were all hanged from trees near the place where they were found.

Second, the wounded soldiers are talking about the strength of Chu Ting's army. These troops in the city, including the 49th and 53rd mixed brigades, the 14th Division, the 3rd Tank Brigade and the 4th Division's advance troops, almost all of them fought against the Chinese army on the mainland, so the huge contrast in the combat effectiveness of Chu Ting's long division left a deep memory on them.

A lieutenant, who was deaf by the *bombing, was in a crowd of listeners around him, loudly spreading the emotions of defeating ideas that would be difficult for the 5th Army to defeat.

"Our 4th Division, fought against the Fifth Army in Jiangsu, at that time they were not so ......strong," the lieutenant smoked a cigarette, his eyes showed fear, "At that time, they didn't have so many artillery, and they didn't know how to fight, I remember that every time the Chinese army attacked, the distance between the soldiers and the tanks was always 200 meters, enough for us to isolate the tanks with firepower, but now it's different...... Commander Noda, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat Chief Chu. ”

"yes, you know how my leg broke?" A senior soldier next to him took over the conversation, "Their scouts touched my position at night to reconnoitre, and when they left, they were still on the passage where our scouts were dispatched, and they left*." The Chinese army has never been so good at fighting as it is now. ”

"Sir!" A soldier shouted outside the field hospital tent, and everyone except the deaf lieutenant got up and turned to the rear.

Lin Xiuxuan also turned around curiously, and found that a guy with a straight uniform and riding boots came, although his face was dirty and he was wearing a steel helmet, but looking at the front and back hugging the leader, he was not a petty officer, he glanced at the military rank, it was a lieutenant general.

"The division commander came to visit everyone......"

As soon as the adjutant's words came out, he was interrupted by a wave from the division commander. The head of the Noda division didn't want to be too ostentatious. Lin Xiuxuan stood behind the wounded and secretly applauded, looking like he couldn't stop his luck.

Kengo Noda came over and shook hands with the wounded Japanese soldiers, of course, there were some ranks, and Lin Xiuxuan found that he still shook hands with officers above the rank of lieutenant and usually ignored the soldiers who were closer. When Noda arrived at Lin Xiuxuan, he suddenly noticed the tall soldier and the exaggerated puddle of blood on his neck. Of course, this was left behind when Xu Chong's soldiers stabbed the original owner of the uniform to death with a dagger.

Noda suddenly stretched out his hand, Lin Xiuxuan was caught off guard, so he could only salute first, and then shake hands with this old devil. He noticed that Noda's eyes were shining with tears, and he was probably imagining how seriously Lin Xiuxuan's blood had been hurt? Although there is no wound on the face at all.

The lieutenant didn't know that the big man was behind him, and he was still talking there, like all deaf fellows, and his voice was very loud. Everyone knew that he was the advance officer of the 4th Division from Mandela, and he was very unhappy that he was now under the command of the 14th Division.

“…… Our 4th Division fought with the 5th Army in Mandela, although it did not win, but it did not suffer a loss, in my opinion, the command of your 14th Division is problematic, not clever enough, how can you fight hard? ”

A lieutenant talked loudly about the command problem in front of him, which made Kengo Noda a little embarrassed, the guy from the 14th Division here probably hated this guy from the Osaka Division, and no one reminded him that the officer had arrived, he was still squatting there alone, talking endlessly about what would happen if he was asked to command, and Noda didn't know when he walked behind his back. I didn't look up until the cigarette fart in my hand was smoked. If you find that the situation is not right, quickly stand up.

After all, Noda Kengo has a humble character in his name, and his cultivation is not bad, he snapped and stood upright, and gave a formal salute to the panicked lieutenant.

"I've made a note of what you're saying."

The deaf man didn't hear what Noda said, so he could only nod his head again and again. Watching Noda's face turn pale and leave.

Lin Xiuxuan squeezed through the crowd and quietly followed. It's a pity that Noda and his party quickly got into the car and disappeared at the end of the street, but the drone should be able to follow.

He informed Qin Xiaosu that there was no need to find a telephone line, and immediately converged to the enemy's headquarters.

After the two men converged, they managed to get two bicycles in the dilapidated town, one of which had a telephone line roller on the back, and they rode on the bikes and followed the drone's instructions to the place where Noda's convoy had disappeared.

The drone tracked the two vehicles carrying Noda out of the eastern part of the city and disappeared into the forest, where it approached Chu Tingchang's offensive zone. But the forest there is too dense for drones to keep tracking. Out of the city, Lin Xiuxuan and Qin Xiaosu abandoned the car and took the telephone line into the forest.

The forest was not well guarded, and all kinds of makeshift telephone lines could be seen everywhere. They soon found traces of tracks and wheels on the ground, and the seemingly hidden procession was not small, and the Japanese clearly knew how to hide it.

The Japanese vehicles were gradually revealed, and the vehicles gathered on the side of the road, all of them were camouflaged, and the vigilance around them was very lax, indicating that this was a unit that was ready to run at any time, but it was only using sidecar motorcycles, and some guard points were deployed around it, and there was no gendarme at all. Qin Xiaosu took out the telephone cable roller he carried with him and put it on his back, and the two of them pretended to set up the wire and easily approached the Japanese army. The guards nodded to them and let them go.

You can not see the Japanese vehicles hiding in the shade of the trees, leaning against the left side of the road, which is the driving habit of the Japanese troops, and other tanks hiding in a farther place. It looks like a mechanized army. Lin Xiuxuan had just arrived in northern Thailand, so he didn't know that the Japanese army still had mechanized troops. It seems that Noda is gathering this force and planning something.

Instead of going all the way down the forest road, they turned into one side of the forest, where many of the telephone lines were connected. Following this clue, they quickly found the car parked on the side of the road, which was the same one Noda had just ridden.

The security here is a little tighter, there are patrols around, they can't get too close in broad daylight, but the warning range is still not big enough, they can still find some vantage points and observe.

Lin climbed up the tree and looked into the distance with a telescope, and through the dense branches, he could see several tents in the forest four hundred meters away, and several officers wearing steel helmets were discussing something in front of a blackboard outside the tent. There were no communications soldiers or motorbikes on horseback near the tent, and the scale was only a small level of headquarters.

It seems that the enemy has learned to reduce the size of the headquarters to hide itself, no longer have a tight perimeter defense, and a large number of command personnel, so that the advantage is that it can go at any time and is not easy to be detected by aerial reconnaissance.

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I'm sorry to take two or three days off from tomorrow on a business trip. However, it will be updated if conditions allow.