When the new 38th Division was besieging Bamo, in order to gain the strategic initiative, Sun Liren ordered the new 30th Division to make a detour south and launch an attack on Nankan.

Nankan is located on the south bank of the Ruili River, 114 kilometers away from Bamo in the west, 216 kilometers away from Lashio in the south, and 63 kilometers away from Wan Town, a border town in Yunnan, China. It was the last strong stronghold for the Japanese army to block the Chinese garrison in India and the Chinese expeditionary force to counterattack in western Yunnan, and to delay the opening of the Sino-Indian highway.

On November 19, 1944, General Hu Su's new 30th Division was divided into three columns, crossed Mansi, and made a long-distance attack along the Eighth (Mo) South (Kan) Highway and the mountains on both sides, and approached Nankan.

On December 6, the vanguard of this unit arrived at the north-south line near the 39-mile road sign of the Ban Nan Highway, and attacked the Japanese army's outer positions at Nankan in Kangman, Nanyu, Bengjiatang and other places. At that time, the commander of the 55th Wing, Yamazaki Daisa, led more than 3,000 people to reinforce the siege of Bamo and rushed to Moxi; On the 10th, there was an encounter with the new 38th Division. On the 11th, the 89th Regiment of the New 30th Division was returned to its formation and put into operation; The 114th Regiment of the New 38th Division also rushed in to reinforce from Bamo and detoured back to the right rear flank of the Yamazaki detachment to carry out the attack. In order to completely annihilate the Yamazaki detachment, the new 30th Division sent one regiment to carry out a detour from the left flank of Bengjiatang and advance to the Mazhi attack, cutting off the Japanese army's retreat in one fell swoop. After fierce fighting until the 15th, Bamo was conquered by the Chinese army in India; The Yamazaki detachment then retreated to Nankan.

Feng Yi's Einsatzgruppen Regiment stayed near Mandalay for two months, and in these two months, the Einsatzgruppen Regiment achieved great results, allowing the Japanese troops in the towns around Mandalay to sweep out of the city, and they had to go out of the city on the scale of a squadron, and they had to carry mortars, heavy machine guns, and even mountain artillery for cover, otherwise, the squads that were eaten were their destination.

"Sir, I figured it out, the devils are destroying stupas and monasteries in Mandalay, they are collecting gold dust, and now they are alchemy day and night."

On the evening of the 15th, Feng Ye received news from the Chinese merchant group that the devil was processing gold bars in Mandalay.

Perhaps because of the loss of Ba Mo, Mandalay would be attacked by the expeditionary force at any time, so the Japanese garrison in Mandalay accelerated the collection speed, and they directly ransacked several monasteries on Mandalay Hill during the day, controlled more than a dozen pagodas, and a large number of Japanese troops began to scrape gold dust from the pagodas.

How much gold dust is on a stupa in Myanmar? This answer may not be there, there are too many pagodas in Myanmar, but what has been recorded is the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, which was built with more than seven tons of gold, of course, it is impossible to recover so much gold now, and the Japanese army does not want to recycle it all, they just need to take a large part of it.

The shadow of the defeat in the war forced the Japanese army to speed up the pace and turn gold dust into gold, which did not have any technical content for the devils, and in the city of Mandalay, in the refining boiler in the devil's barracks, the fire was blazing, and the gold nuggets were rapidly prototyping.

"Scraping gold dust? How much can that scrape? ”

Similarly, Feng Ye had no concept of this, and asked in surprise.

"Not to mention other places, just the pagoda on Mandalay Hill and the Mandalay Palace, the devil doesn't have to get all of them, and if you get half of them, you can get at least more than five tons of gold."

Chen Xiong gestured his hands, looking like he didn't know it.

"West ......"

Feng Yi took a breath of cold air and was very surprised, is Myanmar so rich?

This is related to the tradition of the country of Myanmar, where more than eighty percent of the people believe in Buddhism, starting from the feudal dynasty, no matter which dynasty, the Buddha statue has become their political achievement, thousands of years, the country wasted a lot of gold on the Buddha statue; So many golden things are placed on the ground, for a robber like the Japanese army, that from time to time let the cat sleep with a salted fish? Why wouldn't he want to take it away?

"The devils must be heavily guarded, and even if we go in Mandalay, we won't be able to get our hands on it."

However, Feng Yi quickly gave up, he didn't think that the devil would be negligent in taking precautions.

"There is information on this that can be collected, but we can't get it, and it's okay to sabotage them so easily."

Feng Yi squinted his eyes, if he couldn't get it, he wouldn't let the devil succeed.

"Okay, I've got the people in Mandalay on the lookout."

Chen Xiong nodded, as a businessman, he had long coveted the Golden Buddha in Myanmar, but he really didn't dare.

In the same way, the Kachin commandos are the local armed forces in Myanmar, and they get the information a little faster, and the Kachin commandos are very angry about the behavior of the Japanese who undermine their faith, and they are eager to give these robbers a little color, so recently, the railway and road from Mandalay to Yangon have been attacked by the Kachin commandos every day, and the devil officer has a headache, but fortunately, it takes a little time to refine the gold, otherwise he should have a headache now how to transport the gold out.

The actions of the Japanese army in Mandalay have already aroused public outrage, and now Mandalay is under martial law all day, and the devils are like a great enemy; Because they had to scrape the gold dust with a large number of troops, they could not drive the Burmese to do this kind of work, and the Burmese people were in awe of the Buddha statues beyond their lives, and even if the bayonets were coming, they were not willing to pick up the tools, let alone let them offend the Buddha statues.

As for the question of how to transport it, they have already considered it, that is, it will be transported by rail at one time, so that it is more convenient to escort, but now the railway is being destroyed every day, even the use of armored vehicles for armed patrols is useless, and the railway line from Mandalay to Rangoon is too long.

The devil's solution is very simple, that is, to transfer to road transportation, so that at least the loss will not be too big; Moreover, this can also lure out the anti-Japanese elements who have recently sabotaged the railway, and gather and annihilate them.

"There is one railway and two roads from Mandalay to Yangon; Needless to say, the railway has been targeted by the Kachin commandos, they only have two hundred people, and all they will definitely choose to control that road at the same time; Let's go over here. ”

Feng pointed to the southwest of Mandalay, the highway that bypassed Minjian, on this road, there were many places suitable for their ambush, and if the devils wanted to transport gold, they had to use a large number of trucks, and the gold thing was very heavy, and it was impossible to rely on people for such a long road.

"The devils may use armored vehicles or tanks to escort them, we need bazookas, mines, and a lot of explosives......"

The Japanese army had already made a plan, and Mandalay was in full swing, but the information was still being passed on, and the Japanese army had begun to prepare for the delivery of gold.

Feng Ye had already sent a report to the headquarters, requesting ammunition supplies, and the type and quantity of supplies were also sent, Feng Ye did not plan to receive the airdrop near the Chinese village, and Luo Da took the mission and took two companies to the field to find a suitable airdrop site.

The combat action has been formulated, this time, Feng Ye personally led the team to set off, he gathered five companies, this time it may be a trap for the devil, even if it is a trap, five companies, Feng Ye has self-confidence, and he can make the devil empty of both people and money.

"Huhuhu......"

Taking advantage of the night, the Einsatzgruppen moved southwest of Mandalay, and they had to lay in ambush overnight, waiting for the devil to take the bait.