887 Vindictiveness
Xu Chong decided to follow the figure. He left the wolfdog to guard the plane, and he quickly followed.
His night vision device helps him keep a distance of several hundred meters and keep up with the sneaky figure. Eventually, the suspicious figure ran through a forest and towards a car. He memorized the license plate number, and the next tracking task could only be handed over to the drone. Drones are west of Bangkok, on a mission to track a Japanese landing fleet. It was not possible to track the sedan. But Xu Chong noticed that the car was heading for Bangkok, and perhaps Uncle Huang's forces could help investigate the matter.
Lin Xiuxuan got the report and fell into a dilemma. It is not difficult for the Americans to send another plane, but it is still difficult to guarantee that the military commanders will not find an opportunity to attack. Because these planes are all transferred from Myanmar, and Myanmar is in Liao's hands.
Even if there was no discovery* on the plane, even if there was no evidence that the military commanders wanted to get rid of Chu Tingchang, even if Chu Tingchang had the invitation of President Sifu (it is expected that Jiang would not dare to do anything), and even if Stilwell would send Brigadier General Frank Merrill to be on the same plane with Chu Tingchang at noon tomorrow, Lin still did not dare to take it lightly.
Lin Xiuxuan is in trouble. Xiong sent an urgent call to Xianghui in northern Thailand, Deputy Commander Xiong, for the first time he used the set of passwords that Qin Xiaosu handed him when they broke up last time, which shows that the situation is serious.
The contents of the telegram showed that Dai Li personally and secretly visited his headquarters and asked him to provide information on the establishment and total strength of Chu Tingchang's troops, and also wanted to find out the political review standards of Chu Tingchang's recruitment office in northern Burma and why a large number of members of the Three Youth League were turned away.
Chongqing wants to know these things, not in a day or two. Xiong Xianghui was all sloppy and confused, and this time was no exception. only put all the blame on Chief Chu Ting, showing that he deliberately messed up a lot of things, making it difficult for people in all departments to spy on the overall situation; In addition, every time he recruits soldiers, he can get the list of military commanders' secret agents from any channel in advance, and then kick these people out.
However, in this way, it is bound to increase Chongqing's suspicions. Just his ability to exclude all the Three Youth Leagues secretly sent by Chongqing was enough to make Chiang Kai-shek vigilant. Be wary that he also has an internal response in Chongqing.
Whether the discovery of suspicious characters and Dai Li's secret visit to Xiong Xianghui were just isolated incidents without connection, he didn't dare to say. But ensuring the safety of Chu Tingchang is his only important task recently, and as for whether Makino died in the attack, he can't hear the news for the time being, so he can only let it go.
Looking out from the headquarters, on the runway temporarily built by the Lanxiang troops and the US Army Engineer Corps, planes were landing one after another. He came up with a brilliant idea: a temporary requisition of a cargo plane or bomber would completely disrupt a possible conspiracy. When the plane arrived in Kolkata, it was basically safe, because Lao Chiang's hand could not reach there.
Eight o'clock in the morning. The commander of the Garahad raider unit, Brigadier General Frank Merrill, arrived at the airport on time.
The brigadier general was working with the Hmong guerrillas on the Laotian border in an attempt to find a secret passage from Cambodia into northern Vietnam to support the Vietnamese guerrillas in the north; After buying off the 15-year-old Laotian warlord Wang Bao with money, the path has been found, and it is tentatively known as the Merrill Trail.
At such a critical moment, Stilwell recalled him to Thailand, because he was the highest-ranking American general in the country, and Stilwell wanted him to accompany Chu Tingchang to Calcutta. For the reason, the clever Commander Chu suddenly panicked and hoped that the Americans would be able to make a guarantee for the same plane. Of course, Stilwell also wanted to know about the Merrill Trail, so he wanted him to stop by Calcutta to give a report.
Merrill left his army, rode in a jeep, and spent three days crossing the melee zone between Zhou Youfu and the Japanese army before returning to northern Thailand. He was quite puzzled by Chu Tingchang's thoughts, he did fight too many amazing victories, but his personal expansion was too fast, to the point that he had to be accompanied by American generals before getting on the plane. Of course, he knew that Chu Tingchang was caught up in a complicated Chinese-style personnel struggle, but it was the time of the Great War, and he did not think that Chongqing would be stupid enough to get rid of Chu Tingchang in a way that offended Roosevelt.
Merrill was only notified when he arrived at the airport, and Chief Chu suddenly had a stomachache and temporarily decided not to go today. The brigadier general wanted to scold angrily, but Chu Tingchang avoided it, leaving him with no one to scold.
The plane had already stopped on the runway, and he hesitated to go back and continue to work with Wang Bao and his Boy Scouts, but the agreement to meet Stilwell was still to be carried out, so he got on the C47 and flew directly to Kolkata. According to the agreement between Chu Tingchang and the US side, the plane will fly over northern Myanmar without any stops. The US side also fully "understands" its security needs.
Of course, Chu Tingchang had a stomachache, and he was still in the headquarters, waiting for the tailor to change his clothes. Lin Xiuxuan listened to the pilot on the C47 plane talking to the radio to see if there was any conspiracy.
If Merrill is fine, then Chief Chu will casually find a plane to return home, temporarily modify the route, and go to the East Indies. If anything, whether it is necessary to make this trip is a big question mark.
When the plane flew over the Thai-Burmese border, the pilot noticed that the fuel gauge had dropped rapidly, and the two planes thought again, and at the same time there was no reason for oil leakage. Qin Xiaosu easily intercepted the pilot's call with the ground, and it seems that not finding * does not mean that he did not move his feet.
At the same time, inside the city of Bangkok. A group of gang members armed with axes and hammers suddenly broke into a two-story home in Chinatown. Next to the house, the car was parked.
The gangsters smashed all six people who were sending out the report in the house for no apparent reason, and then destroyed the house. They were instructed to just smash it and not hurt anyone. After wreaking havoc, more than a dozen big men collected their troops and went back. Xu Chong waited on the other side of the street, and when he saw Huang Tianyang's people leaving, he hurried in.
The house was a mess, littered with scraps of paper and all sorts of tattered items. However, he has the ability to search for physical evidence, and can quickly read a few words and find something useful. Those codebooks and the like are not what he wants, what he wants is the purpose of this group.
He hastily read all the documents and quickly found a plan with a plane plan, which was obviously related to Chu Tingchang.
The plan includes two specific scenarios. The first solution is to destroy the aircraft's oil circuit, causing it to leak oil at high altitudes. Eventually, it was forced to land at the nearest airport.
The second scheme is to destroy the barometric altimeter, so that the pilot cannot grasp the altitude and hit the mountain. However, the plan emphasizes that this scheme, which is only available at night, requires listening to the departure time of the "target". And the political risk is too great, and it is necessary to wait for the assessment of the superiors.
Judging by the supporting drawings, it is aimed at American transport aircraft. It can be seen that there is indeed a conspiracy against Chu Tingchang. But there are also political risks.
It seems that they may be implementing the first plan, but the purpose is not to cause Chu Tingchang and die.
At the same time, Merrill lost most of the plane's fuel and the pilot was forced to contact Mandalay Airport to request an emergency landing. Fortunately, the pilot was very familiar with the route, so he didn't waste any time in the air. By the time the C47 arrived over Mandalay Airport, there were only a few dozen litres of fuel left. As the pilot landed, Merrill was in the cabin and noticed a truck following him on the runway. He didn't know what the Chinese defenders here had taken the wrong medicine.
After the plane came to a standstill. About two companies of soldiers surrounded the plane. Brigadier Merrill had just pushed open the hatch when he saw someone pointing at him with a *. Behind the army sat Liao Yaoxiang in a jeep. They had met once at a combat meeting, and they were old acquaintances.
A junior officer dragged him and "invited" him off the plane, and then seven or eight soldiers rushed onto the plane.
Merrill thought to himself: Chu Tingchang's stomach ache is definitely a lie, and it must be his turtle shell that plays some mysterious role. It's hateful that he knew there was danger, but he still let himself rise into the air.
The soldiers came out and reported to Liao Yaoxiang that there was no Chief Chu on board. Only then did Liao Yaoxiang turn to the angry Americans. The face was full of embarrassment.
"General Liao, you have to give me an explanation, what the hell is going on?"
"We are just ordered to protect you and General Chu Tingchang's journey."
"I don't think the plane broke down by accident, right? I'd like General Stilwell to report this bad thing. ”
"I assure you, it was accidental, I didn't know about it beforehand, I just received a report from the control tower, I knew that the plane was out of order again, and I wanted to protect you. There is still official business below, go first, and when the plane is repaired, you can leave here. ”
Liao Yaoxiang seemed to be incompatible, he knew that this matter could not be explained clearly, so he simply fooled away. He also had to send a telegram to Chongqing to tell the old man that things were messed up, and of course the old man might not have received the bad news at the first time, because he had already set out on his way to Egypt, and he was probably already in the Middle East by this time.
The order given to him from above was to arrest Chu Tingchang and escort him directly to the country, but he was not allowed to hurt his name.
Of course, he understood the principal's feelings, and Roosevelt's direct invitation to Chief Chu was the most direct threat to the principal. So the headmaster hopes that when he goes to Cairo to meet the other two giants, there will be no such annoying person behind him.
Chu Tingchang got the information that the plane landed in Mandalay for the first time, and then Qin Xiaosu intercepted Merrill's telegram to Stilwell, obviously Lao Jiang was trying to kidnap himself, which was of course a poisonous plan to kill two birds with one stone, on the one hand, he could take advantage of the situation to seize his army, and on the other hand, he could prevent himself from appearing in front of Roosevelt and Churchill and threatening his position. But Lao Jiang obviously overlooked one thing, that is, his ability to predict the prophet. It seems that after he embraced Christianity, he no longer had a sense of reverence for traditional Chinese culture.
"What are you going to do? Now you're completely stiff with him. Lin Xiuxuan asked, he seemed to want to know if Chief Chu was still determined to go to Cairo.
"Go, of course go, come and go. Bring the most decent white uniform, and the pair of leather shoes with an inner height. I want him to know what will happen if he sins against me. ”
"What about the epaulettes of the first-class general 3D printed by Shuping?" Lin Xiuxuan pouted.
"Take it! His grandmother's, he can't be angry. ”