963 Dysfunction
Zhou Youfu hurriedly checked the map, according to the location updated by He Bisheng's troops through the radio 2 hours ago, his troops should be 30 miles away, not too far, and it is common for the marching route to be wrong.
He stepped out of the tent and followed the officer's point, looked through his binoculars, and found that two tanks were indeed parked on the side of the road in the distance. About 2 kilometers away, there were tank crews walking around the tanks, seemingly in trouble.
He didn't have a liaison officer from the Ho Bi Sheng Department by his side (because of some unspeakable actions, he drove him away).
If he wants to withdraw, he doesn't need to be protected by tanks, but those tanks occupy the road is a problem, and when his vigilant troops return with supplies, they will need to take that road. So he ordered the communications troops to send a motorcycle over and tell them to get out, and at the same time ordered the command vehicle to be ready and withdraw at any time. His command had only moved here for 24 hours, and it was mostly telecommunications, so he didn't feel that the enemy could find him.
The evacuation was not difficult for him, because there were not many crew members in the core of the command, and the things that needed to be carried, that is, the three parts of the map, radio and security equipment, the main belongings could be carried by a few Dodge command jeeps or half-track command vehicles with enhanced communication capabilities, plus a few jeeps and motorcycles composed of a communications unit, and the command function was complete.
Chu Tingchang's flat command system, with the streamlining and reform of the troops' organization, is of course the experience of the 21st century, but after Zhou Youfu's headquarters was almost knocked out, he also began to work on the deployment of the command to defend against assault (the original intention was to defend against *), and his own headquarters and the headquarters of several group armies were streamlined and backed up.
It is not realistic for the command to recover quickly after being attacked, and it is not realistic for the troops with strict traditional levels and lack of communication equipment, but in Zhou's troops, as long as a few vehicles are left, they can still maintain command at the battalion level.
Zhou Youfu realized that Chief Chu's warning was not trivial, but he still had some belongings to clean up, so he had to wait. His guards, sent to carry weapons repair shops in the mountains of Senmono, have not yet returned. Of course, the so-called weapons repair is only a pretense, and the purpose of the existence of that repair shop is to melt and recast the gold and silver products that he "collected" from Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam through various means. In addition, he just grabbed a set of equipment in Da Lat, the Japanese printed counterfeit banknotes from Southeast Asian countries (after the Japanese army occupied Southeast Asia, the equipment was idle), although he did not find the paper for a while, he could not start work, but Lao Zhou felt that this thing was valuable, and he was reluctant to throw it away, and even Chu Tingchang did not know about it.
Chu Tingchang's telegram was very few words, and he was not very clear about the infiltration of the enemy, although the commander expected the enemy to take the lead, but at this time, Zhou Youfu still had some luck and wanted to wait.
Captain Atami was also taken aback when he saw a barracks of the enemy headquarters from afar, and then suspected that he had made a mistake, because the camp was much smaller than expected. The divisional and regimental headquarters of the Japanese army, which was rarely detached from the main force, was usually close to the baggage and artillery or reserves.
But what he saw was not quite like a high-level command organ, especially Zhou Youfu was famous for tank combat, and Atami expected that there should be at least one company of tanks near the headquarters, but there was none. Not to mention tanks and trucks, there are very few trucks, and the alert force will probably not exceed 200 people. A number of jeeps were parked around the barracks, and some motorbikes were coming in and out.
The captain jumped out of the tank and walked more than a hundred meters on foot, carefully checking the telephone lines densely hung in the trees on both sides, and indeed led there. Maybe the command used to be here, but now it's gone?
He was a little hesitant to rush down and try his luck? But with such a large number of troops infiltrated, should he grab greater results? His hesitation gave the equally uncertain Zhou Youfu time to obtain complete information.
Just when both sides were in a state of unknown intelligence and standing still, only Qin Xiaosu was doing things, and he quickly retrieved all his own radio communications (usually this technology is only used for the Japanese), and the keywords of voice recognition were set as: "tanks, armored vehicles, road grabbing, numbers, spies, suspicious ......" and so on. He knew that through the command organ of Chief Chu Ting, it was obviously too late to go down to say hello and find out what was wrong. According to his analysis, if the enemy situation touches any level of command, there will be a report soon, and if there is no report, it means that the command system has been deceived, so it is necessary to find another way.
These days, he has gained a lot of experience by listening to Japanese communications. The so-called secrecy of communication becomes more and more difficult to achieve the further down it goes, and the lower-level troops may not know anything and just act according to orders, but clues will definitely leak out. He believed that it was impossible for the Japanese troops to come in without horses, and the greatest possibility was that they were blocked by the military bureaucracy that was numb and taken for granted.
While Atami was looking for Zhou Youfu's headquarters, Qin Xiaosu heard clues. Within an hour, there were a total of 9 calls, six of which reported that the He Bisheng tank group was scrambling for the road, one reported that the He Bisheng tank crashed into a telephone pole and fled, and one reported that the He Bisheng tank used a signal flag to blindly command on the hill.
Qin Xiaosu outlined the enemy's route and realized that they had touched the Lao Zhou headquarters all the way.
Zhou Youfu received a second telegram from Chief Chu Ting, ordering him to evacuate immediately, and reminding that the infiltrating enemy might be a tank force of a certain size. When Lao Zhou was alert, nearly 100 trucks of his guard troops returned from the mountains and dragged him to collect the loot.
Atami saw the convoy from afar, and wanted to pass in front of him, and finally a stone fell to the ground, and it seemed that the hard work paid off, and this was the appearance of a command headquarters.
Due to the relocation of the factory, a lot of equipment is piled up behind the truck and covered with tarpaulin, which looks like special equipment from a distance, which is quite imposing.
It was too late to call a meeting of the commanders, so they could only stand on the turret and call the crews on the radio:
"I ordered, attack the front convoy and destroy all the equipment on board. Kill ......"
Before he could speak, he saw a sidecar speeding in front of him, and the motorcycle squeezed its brakes and threw up its rear wheels, which was right in front of his tank. In the sidecar, the communication soldier pointed at Atami's nose: You are blind and drive here? Beware of walking around if you can't eat.
Atami slammed the turret armor, and the machine gunner below understood the intent and turned the gun turret. Atami pulled out his pistol himself. It's a pity that it's stuck.
The motorcyclist was also clever, and when he saw that the signs were wrong, he quickly turned around. Japanese machine guns fired, but the motorcycles had already rushed into the forest and missed.
Zhou Youfu heard the gunshots and hurriedly jumped into the Dodge car, while the staff followed closely in the half-track command car and wanted to evacuate together. Lao Zhou knew that there was a big trouble today, because if the Japanese tanks were side by side on the road, their firepower would be enough to block the retreat, and if they abandoned the vehicles and fled, it would mean that the most basic control over the troops was lost, and it was difficult to recover in a short time. In any case, he can't lose the core of the command, otherwise I'm sorry for the commander, and he ordered to rush out desperately. But the Japanese tanks did not come straight to his headquarters, they went towards the truck convoy. Zhou Youfu couldn't understand the intentions of the Japanese, they seemed to be robbing money? But he didn't have time to think about it, and he ordered the command to get out while it was in chaos.
The tanks rushed into the truck queue and attacked in a rather orderly manner, cutting off the head and tail and cutting off the waist. Zhou Youfu's jeep snatched from not far in front of the enemy's tank, but the enemy didn't pay much attention to him.
Lin Xiuxuan came from behind, he had just learned that the enemy had assaulted Lao Zhou's headquarters, but Lao Zhou seemed to be fine, because at this time he had already begun to adjust his deployment. At the same time, the enemy in the rear began to intensify the offensive. Sakagaki's troops accelerated with a left hook from south to north, and Isoya's forces also tried to speed up the attack. With the current situation, it is unlikely that the enemy will encircle Zhou Youfubu, but it may take advantage of the chaos to get off the guard.
Now Pavilionkeeper Chu must immediately find and track down the enemy's infiltrated troops, so that they do not take advantage of the imminent darkness to jump out and hide again. Now it seems that the Japanese plan did not contemplate the return fuel, which made it possible for them to carry out the most far-reaching infiltration and sabotage.
However, the Hound Chariot soon ran into trouble, and was stopped by Zhou Youfu's guards when it passed through the barrier. Zhou Youfu's retained command ability magnified his initial panic, and he ordered his troops to intercept all suspicious armored vehicles.
Lin Xiuxuan's group was further behind than the troops after the old Zhou Xuan, and in the past, it relied on prior coordination and radio communication to cross the front lines of the two sides, but now it doesn't work, his convoy was intercepted by the special battalion of the 211th Division of the rearguard, and any communication is difficult to dispel the doubts of the other party. But at this time, there was already chaos on the road, and the various units got the news that the enemy agents had come in, as well as Zhou Youfu's order to closely monitor them, and began to guard each other and inquire repeatedly. The lack of gendarmerie control has prevented the troops from coping with such new situations.
Like a precision machine* into a steel bar, a tight retreat, almost complete stagnation, if this situation is not eliminated at once, the enemy who is following closely may outflank it from both flanks within a day or two. Zhou Youfu's two youth divisions, 205 and 211, are currently lagging behind and are more dangerous.
It was already evening when Lin Xiuxuan arrived at the area of the Japanese raid, and the scene was in shambles, about 70 vehicles of various kinds were destroyed, including 4 Japanese Stewart tanks. Two were destroyed by infantry, one was burned by an exploding fuel truck, and the other turned on a wrong slope and was knocked over by a clever truck. This time, Lin Xiuxuan finally found the enemy's map, but there was not much information. It only knows the important targets preset by the enemy on the map, including several bridges leading to Cambodia and key obstacles, which shows that the enemy has a certain degree of blindness in the selection of targets, and it is not easy to predict. However, some areas are marked with red circles of unknown significance, and the map is flat, and Lin guesses that it may be the enemy's intended airdrop location.
Since the last time the Japanese army engaged in airborne troops in Burma, most of them fell and drowned in the Irrawaddy River, they have not used the airborne forces again. However, when 419 went to the East China Sea, it was found that the Japanese army had established a new airborne base on Hainan Island, and it seemed that a large force was stationed.