.At a while, smoke and dust rose in front of you.

The careful General Dai looked at the millions of thin and weak gossips in front of him, and after pondering, he sighed in surprise: "Haoran, you won't eat ginseng as radish for war horses! The four legs of your New Twenty Army are actually one step ahead of the four wheels of our Fifth Army!"

"Brother Binggong is a bad reward! I think the chariot regiment of your army has too high requirements for road conditions and is not as good as the cavalry. This makes my cavalry brigade take the lead." Cheng Jiaji was humble without any worries, but the hint of joy appeared on his face could not be concealed. After personally "inspecting" Myanmar, he learned that the terrain of the war zone was strange and that heavy weapons such as chariots were difficult to use in many places. Although he was not in the new twenty army in the past six months,

It also took some effort to deal with the cavalry brigade. At this time, the cavalry brigade was greatly enriched compared with the previous ones, not only had its personnel and equipment, but also had more than 4,000 horses. In other words, each cavalry had an average of two horses. Otherwise, even if the roads in Yunnan Province were not suitable for the advance of chariots, Liu Tianlong's cavalry brigade wanted to exceed the chariot troops with the comprehensive quality of the Five Army, which was the first in the country in terms of marching speed. Even if it was limited to short-distance struggles, it would be unimaginable.

When the rolling "gray tide" was about to spread to the people who had already escaped into the pavilion, two fast horses came out of the iron stream of cavalry and rushed towards the Shili Pavilion. Most of the generals in the pavilion were happy to ride fierce horses. At this time, these two horses were both maroon-red, and they were both good horses from thousands of miles away. When everyone was happy to see the hunting, they all looked envious and amazed.

Obviously, the two knights on the horse were also competing. This one relied on the strength of the man and the horse was strong. The one who had gained the experience and skills of the horse that had been bumping for half his life actually drove him side by side, and at the same time used force to force the horse to slam the war horse under his seat. The war horse suddenly stopped from the high speed. No matter how extraordinary the horse was, he would have to rush into the sky and neighed. The two horses were full of armed knights, and they were really like dragons and horses, and they had never fought with each other. This kind of golden swords and iron horses, the heroic meaning of heroes, was fully revealed!

"Boss Cheng!" Needless to say, this knight who was just now was Wen Songyuan, the first general under Cheng Jiaji. And in the New Twenty Army, the only veteran Liu Tianlong (a thief) who can compete with Wen Songyuan in cavalry and is qualified to compete with Wen Songyuan for a long time.

Since Cheng Jiaji was summoned to Chongqing last year, this pair of brothers who are in trouble and depend on each other for half a year have not met each other. To be honest, these two brothers have not been separated for so long, but Cheng Jiaji has no intention of reminiscing about the past. As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked, "Wen Lao Er, where are Brother Wei Li? Where are the locations of each division? Are you marching with the five armies in a different way, or are you clear in front and behind?"

Wen Songyuan was stunned by the question, and then replied: "Old Qian took the military headquarters slowly and just arrived at the Forty Lidian. Our new 100th Division will be able to arrive here in two hours. The other divisions, Hojo, Nakamura and others are all in front of the military headquarters except Lao Xing Dian. Commander Qiu from the Fifth Army said that they brought a lot of baggage, and he proposed to line up behind us."

It would be fine if Wen Songyuan didn't explain it. When he explained it, Cheng Jiaji felt even more transparent. He was willing to regard himself as the leader of the army, so he must have been afraid of the New Twenty Army, which was competing for the first place in everything along the way.

The situation was urgent at this time, and he didn't care about entangling these details, so he immediately assigned military affairs: "Wen Lao Er, please send me my order now, and let Wei Li continue to lead the main force of the army to advance rapidly in Myanmar. Your troops, Zhao Desheng's new regiment, were all changed to motorcycles and the Qi Tian brother's cavalry brigade and followed me to help Lashio.

Cheng Jiaji, who was always worried about the retreat of the Sixty-Sixth Army who had been ordered to enter Myanmar, turned around and said excitedly to General Dai, who was also the deputy commander of the Fifth Army at that time: "Brother Binggong, can your 200th Division act together? If there is anything inconvenient to your army, I will take this as the first whip."

General Dai replied without any weakness: "I'll go and discuss with Junzu Qiu. Haoran, don't be proud of yourself, I don't know who will arrive at Lashio first." As soon as he finished speaking, General Dai, who looked elegant on the outside, never let down his descendants, had already snatched out of the pick-up guanting and kicked up the horse and went straight.

"Haoran, you aroused the pride that you buried in your heart. Qiu Qing'an is in trouble!" Zheng Zhonggang changed his mind and said worriedly: "But is the situation ahead as bad as you think? The Eighth Army is about to reach the border line. If there are any mistakes, it should be able to take care of it!"

Cheng Jiaji, who had already walked to the side of a war horse given up by his subordinates, replied angrily: "This plan was to leave the country with more than 200,000 troops, and hold the battle situation in Myanmar and even Thailand firmly in my palm with the momentum of Mount Tai. But the British who thought that the defeat was settled and wanted us to be scapegoats, had the United States urged so hard that it turned into a military service taboo. (Reading on mobile phone 1 6 k .cn) It's fine, but the Sixth Army and the two weak brigades of the Sixth Army. To be honest, the six divisions of these two armies were the new three of Brother Bron's

The 18th Division is an elite army, and the other five divisions have mediocre combat power. It is really hard to feel relieved when facing my slippery and cruel old rival, Zhongyuan Guiyi. As for the Eighth Army?" Cheng Jiaji, who was already standing firmly on the horse, looked at Li Man with a gloomy face and commented with praise and criticism: "The combat power of Rongyi Division is certainly not to be insulted. If Brother Shi Ting was not thrown away by someone, Brother Bingwen did not let the royal relative squeeze into Kunming to be a commander of a bare body, there would be no need for brothers to force this out?" Speaking of this, Cheng Jiaji quickly hit a circle and arched a few whips and galloped forward.

Looking at Cheng Jiaji's back as he gradually faded away, the former commander of the Eighth Army and the current deputy commander looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The two men who knew the inside story certainly understood what Cheng Jiaji meant. With the adoptive son of Minister He who was in charge of the Eighth Army, "excellent military talent" and the original invention of governing the army with prostitutes and gambling, they were afraid that Cheng Jiaji would be really miserably miserable. As for the other generals, they had long been shocked by Cheng Jiaji's arbitrary behavior, and were stunned by his own way of acting.

After a long time, General Zhang sighed with surprise: "I always felt that I was brave and brave, but compared with Cheng Haoran, I became a fucking wife! I really can't figure it out. How could he even do something like a taboo like changing the marching sequence of the army without authorization, so naturally?"

"Why? It's up to him, Cheng Haoran, who violated his orders many times but never lost! It's up to him, Cheng Haoran, who always fights first in every battle, never afraid to fight! He has that capital!" General Liao, who was waiting for his new 22nd Division, blurted out.

"I'm afraid it's not just this! Do you still remember what Cheng Haoran said in Hong Kong? I don't know what you thought. Anyway, now I feel that what he said that day is perhaps the truth, and he probably only regards himself as a passerby in the army. When people have no demands, there is nothing they dare not do!" Li Mandi's thoughts and scheming analysis was aware of the situation. He dragged everyone present into a new round of long-term exams.

Cheng Haoran, although you think it’s good, you can’t retreat just by being in the world of fame and fortune! Li Man said to himself secretly.

Although Cheng Jiaji has been traveling day and night, it is a pity that the Zhongdian Highway at this time can only be regarded as a grand blueprint. In the end, he was unable to catch up.

On the 27th, at the request of the British, the main force of the vanguard of the Expeditionary Force took the car provided by the British and drove to the Mandalay area, which had become a frontier. He left a number of troops along the Lashio to Mandalay to help maintain the "policy" in these areas that the British could no longer control. After hearing the news on the way, Cheng Jiaji couldn't help but be so anxious that he scolded Scherwei for "selling his son's land without being sad."

The one in his hand was the American army. No matter how tight the British urged him, Scherwei dared to let people use their troops in a mess? After learning that the New 38th Division, which was left by Scherwei, Cheng Jiaji breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he could trust General Sun's command ability. With General Sun looking at the two armies who had entered Myanmar, the troops entering Myanmar were not good at fighting. As long as the rear path was stable, they would not suffer too much losses.

But the situation on the battlefield next took a sharp turn. It was so fast that Cheng Jiaji, who had a premonition of his mind, felt unpredictable.

The first place where the Japanese army launched the operation was not Lashio! In fact, as early as the same day the expeditionary army entered the country, the main cluster of the Japanese Burmese front, which had been trapped in the border area of ​​Thailand, Laos and Myanmar for nearly half a month, under the command of Lieutenant General Takeuchi Kuang, the commander of the 55th Division of the Japanese army, invaded Myanmar from the front line. After the Japanese army entered the country, they immediately rushed westward in a forcibly marching manner. Because the Japanese vanguards had all changed into captured British uniforms, and a large number of guides sent by the Burmese Independence Army, who were familiar with the local civil and geography, after exercising strong force to deter the mountain villages along the way, the Japanese army took full positions in the early morning of March 2 according to the combat plan stipulated by the Central Plains Rules 1.

On the morning of the same day, just as Scherwei carefully planned a tentative attack on the Japanese army in Mandalay, the Japanese army launched an attack on the front dozens of kilometers from Lashio to Mandalay. Although the 143rd Regiment of the 49th Division of the 6th Army arranged in this area was a total of tens of thousands of people, they were struggling to disperse their troops. Under the sudden attack of the Japanese army that was prepared five times more than they had, the Chinese army that rushed to fight collapsed after half a day of hard fighting. Except for the 55th Division, the remnants of the two regiments led to retreat to Mandalay.

Outside the direction, the other 7,000 soldiers were either killed, captured or defeated. After this war, Cheng Jiaji always felt guilty. If he hadn't been obsessed with letting Leon disrupt the entire northern Myanmar, laying a solid foundation for the Chinese army to operate northern Myanmar in the future, and thus making his personal fear of the power of the independent army in the country, and putting his strength to Myanmar, the Japanese army might not have been able to hide the situation so easily. But at that time, in addition to urging his subordinates to speed up the march, he could only place all hope on the New 38th Division.

After the Japanese army destroyed the main force of the 55th Division, they immediately followed the emergency revision of the Central Plains rules and divided into two groups. One was commanded by Takeuchi Hiroshi, and the 56th Division moved closer to Mandalay. The intention was to join the nearly 20,000 Japanese troops under the city of Mandalay and the Burmese Independence Army with more than 30,000 people. One would attack Mandalay. The other was independently supported by the 18th Division, intending to capture Lashio to cut off the closest avenue that the Chinese army could walk into Myanmar reinforcements.

As the battle situation has developed to the present, even a less outstanding general can see clearly the plan of the Central Plains Rules. The youngest lieutenant general in the Japanese army is dreaming of annihilation of the leading force, or to severely damage the more than 80,000 Chinese-British Allied Forces trapped in Mandalay, and then turn around and fight with all the efforts to deal with the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force that is about to enter Myanmar.

In this way, the success or failure of the battle depends on whether the new 38th Division, which has become an isolated army, can support the moment the reinforcements arrive. If possible, the Chinese army will be alive. On the contrary, Scherwei, who not only represents the face of the United States, is likely to be a prisoner. In addition, Zhongyuangui will have enough chips to compete with the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which is more than one level higher than his strength. If the situation really reaches that point, it will be a shame for the Chinese military, which has been prepared for half a year, to be a great humiliation. On the field, the 18th Division was hit by Huang Ji, Cheng Jiaji hit the east and the west, and almost disintegrated on the spot. Of course, as time goes by, this powerful Jiuzhou soldier

The regiment had already recovered its vitality. This time, it used seven regiments of infantry, labor, baggage and artillery, totaling seven regiments, totaling 26,700 troops, with a total attack on the city defense facilities (if not, if not,), and a small defender city of Lashio, which was only a little over 10,000. At first, from the division commander Lieutenant General Mutaguchi, everyone was underestimated. In the eyes of these Japanese officers and soldiers who were repeatedly attacked by the Chinese army, but still arrogant, the hard battle was after the follow-up troops of the Chinese Expeditionary Force came up. This battle with a very disparity in combat (the Japanese army is accustomed to calculating the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and Japanese armies in a ratio of one to three or four.), it was just a dessert before the meal.

But as soon as they got the hands on, the 18th Division, which was still mainly recruited by the steel workers in Jiuzhou, was defeated by this "iron" "pastry" that was made of "iron".
Chapter completed!