Lashio, Myanmar.

Originally, it was just a barren and backward small village, but after Wang Lianhao came here with only two people, he gathered local forces, farmed and developed infrastructure, and later after Wang Xian led 200,000 workers and peasants to come, it took less than nine months to build an extremely important Yunnan-Burma Highway.

Nowadays, due to the passage of the Hump route, the Yunnan-Burma Highway is not always attacked by the Japanese army as before, and with the continuous strengthening of local defense and training of soldiers by the Longhang Chamber of Commerce, if the Japanese army does not have the determination to fight with all its might, it will not be useful at all if it is only a small force.

Today's starting point of the Yunnan-Burma Highway has changed from the original small mountain village to a smooth and solid road, with a layer of highly planned terraced rice fields as far as the eye can see, in the valley, sturdy and durable military camps are lined up one after another, and there are even a few reconnaissance helicopters parked in the square.

Several trucks rumbled into the barracks from the north, and when the cars came to a stop, some of the recruits, who were dressed and looked around curiously, jumped out of their carriages one by one.

"Hey~ Yebo, these thousand recruits will be handed over to you."

A man wearing a hat and dark-skinned skin jumped out of the co-driver of the truck and slapped Ye Bo, the person in charge of Wang Lianhao's stay here.

"No problem, hard work, it just so happens that our army commander-in-chief, General Wu, will arrive here this afternoon with his elite, and these recruits can fill his personnel gap."

The rough-skinned man took the cigarette from Jeppo, lit one, and let out a long breath.

"Great, the domestic defense line has been initially stabilized, Commissar Wang Xian has united many bloody warlords and incorporated them together, and the number of troops has been expanded to 80,000, but the level of training needs to be improved, thanks to your great help."

Yes, the delivery of supplies in Lashio has now been ranked second, and the first task is to train the troops assembled by Wang Xian in the shortest possible time, so that they can be turned from recruits into soldiers ready for battle.

When Wang Xian's side has recruits sent here, they will break up those recruits and arrange them into the veterans' company, so that they can eat, live together, practice together, and fight together, so that these recruits can grow up quickly to the greatest extent, and even if they are put back inland, they can quickly take charge of themselves.

But just as Yebo and the two were talking, a scout rushed to the front on a motorcycle, threw down the motorcycle and turned three steps into two steps, and said as he ran: "Boss~~ is here!" There are several warships on the other side of the dock, and they must be all of us! ”

Ye Bo took out the pocket watch in his arms and glanced at it and said, "It's nearly a day earlier than expected, it is worthy of Brother Long, the commander of the army of the Chamber of Commerce, go and follow me to greet you!" ”

Outside the reinforced dock, three mighty and majestic warships docked at a distance, and due to the shallow draft here, Wu Xiaolong and the others could only change into small boats to reach the shore.

"Mr. Wu, Mr. Mu, Mr. Niu, you are here!"

Yebo looked at the three bigwigs of the Chamber of Commerce who came down from the boat, and his heart was full of excitement, which also showed that the preparations he had made in advance had paid off, and now the real use of the Yunnan-Burma Highway was finally about to be brought into play.

"The development is good, we are here this time to prepare for the counterattack, is there enough food and ammunition?"

Wu Xiaolong patted Ye Bo on the shoulder and expressed his affirmation.

"Mr. Wu, don't worry, the food and ammunition are very sufficient!"

"I brought 2,000 people this time, of which 500 will be used to protect logistics and strengthen defense, and the other 1,000 people will be mixed with local recruits to form an independent regiment, looking for an opportunity to drive out the little devils here in South Asia, and use this as a springboard to radiate and expand the battlefield in the west and east directions, and the ghosts in the Pacific battlefield will form horns with each other, and it can be regarded as sharing some pressure on the domestic Haozi and them."

"Great, we've been looking forward to it, it's finally time for us to counterattack! During this time, I can be pressed by those little devils enough, let's go, let's go to the base first, I will talk about the situation here as I walk. ”

The group sat in the jeep and made their way to the valley base first, while the soldiers on the ship landed and docked in batches and brought up some of the ammunition supplies that had been delivered.

About an hour later, Wu Xiaolong and the others sat in the spacious and bright command room, listened to Yebo's report, and initially grasped some basic local information.

"Pillar, big mouth."

Wu Xiaolong thought for a while, looked at the two of them and said: "Our independent regiment is named the Youlong Regiment, I am going to divide it into three battalions after the new recruits are mixed, and the three of us will each bring a battalion, according to intelligence, the Japanese army has quietly assembled near Menggong, Mizhina, Bamo and the Nu River."

According to the information given by Wang Lianhao, there are also traces of devil activities in the Songshan, Tengchong, and Longling areas, and we must not underestimate the enemy, because the little devils still have an advantage in military strength in Southeast Asia, and they have also signed friendship treaties with Vietnam and Thailand, and once it is decided to carry out a comprehensive attack here, it cannot be ruled out that the other side's sea, land, and air amphibious forces will appear in front of us at the same time. ”

Wu Xiaolong said and stretched out his hand to point to the combat map and said: "And what we can use is this independent regiment in our hands, except for the troops responsible for defense, we will train these three battalions into a division of a hundred battles, and adopt the method of bringing the old with the new to mature the new recruits as soon as possible."

In addition, the mountains in the Cheli and Linjiang areas overlap, the transportation is inconvenient, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the miasma is particularly large, which is very restrictive for the movement of large corps, especially mobile troops, which is also our advantage, I think that the lower reaches of the Salween River to the area of Mawlamyine, although there are lofty mountains and the danger of the Salween River, but Jingdong, Kayah State, especially near Mawlamyine, there are roads connecting with Thailand, and this will be the best place for the decisive battle. ”

Dazui looked at the map for a while, pointed to the Mawlamyine area, and said, "Brother Long, then can we build a base in advance in Mawlamyine, the Denglao Mountains and the area south of Jingdong to do a good job of defense, our current strength seems to be far from enough to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army here." ”

Wu Xiaolong smiled and nodded: "It seems that Dazui is thinking with his heart, that's right, what I just said is our ultimate goal this time, and at this stage we are still focusing on guerrilla and defense, we still have to wait, Wang Xian's side has already sent the Yunnan-Burma Expeditionary Force, which is expected to arrive within a month, and the manpower he sent this time is about 20,000, plus the artillery we brought this time, it will surround and annihilate the enemy with a thunderous momentum."

Our specific course of action, before the arrival of the people sent by Wang Xian, will be improved and revised again, the current plan is only the first draft, the most important thing at the moment is to familiarize the soldiers with the environment here, and integrate the recruits into our dragon group, many of them are poor peasants transported from the country, it will take a process to train them into veterans of a hundred battles, do you understand? ”

Mu Dezhu pursed his lips and frowned in contemplation, as if he had been thinking about something, and now seeing that Wu Xiaolong had finished speaking, he nodded and said, "Is it over?" Understood, hey, let's have a half-day meeting, can we eat? What are the local snacks? When I first came over, I saw a lot of fruit trees, how did it taste? Sweet or not? ”

Wu Xiaolong was stunned by his question, and then laughed and said, "You fool, you know how to eat!" Okay, let's go and settle the soldiers down first and then think about eating, I said Zhuzi, you are now the commander of the second battalion, and the soldiers under your command have not eaten yet, so you can't eat alone. ”

Mu Dezhu glared and patted his chest and said: "That's natural, we are also commanders now, naturally we want to let our soldiers eat first, hehe~~ I am also a battalion commander, I used to take up to a dozen people to take care of the kitchen and warehouse, and now I can finally go to the battlefield again, I'm quite excited~!" ”

"You guy, don't forget Mr. Zhou's instructions, our soldiers are the most precious talents, remember to bring them home alive as much as possible."

"Of course, let's go, let's go and see if the soldiers are used to it.

After the three of them finished speaking, they packed up their things and went to the vicinity of the barracks accompanied by Yebo.

Just as Wu Xiaolong and the three of them walked to the door of a room with a "class" as a unit, they heard a slightly familiar conversation coming from inside.