In order to deal with the threat of the British Army and the Yuanzheng Army, Yamashita Fengfumi mobilized an infantry regiment of the 18th Division from Singapore and crossed the Denver Strait to Kuala Lumpur; at the same time, he ordered the commander of the Kawamoto Division to organize troops to fight against the British Army and the Yuanzheng Army. . The matter of dealing with Xu Dalong and the guerrilla detachment had to be left alone.
The actions of the British army and the Yuanzheng army were arranged by Xu Dalong. He decided to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army could not take care of him, and immediately launched an offensive against the Japanese army to cooperate with the actions of the Yuanzheng army.
The troops and horses have not moved yet, but the intelligence comes first. Xu Dalong has always attached great importance to intelligence work. Under his leadership, the guerrilla detachment established a special intelligence team. With Mr. Chen's help, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce also set up an intelligence team. Both intelligence departments were directed by Xu Dalong.
The members of the guerrilla detachment's intelligence team are all locals. They have many relatives and friends, and their connections are very complex. It can be said that they are well-informed and have a very detailed grasp of the situation of the local Japanese and puppet troops. The power of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce is even greater, and their sources of information are very wide. They can also promptly transmit the situation of the mobilization of Japanese and puppet troops in Malaysia and Singapore.
Wei Dayong contacted Xu Dalong and said that they had met Wang Jin and had entered Malaysia, only more than 100 kilometers away from Maiba Town. After hearing the good news, Xu Dalong decided to postpone the action and wait until Wei Dayong and others arrived before launching an attack together.
After all, Chen Asong was young and strong, and the injuries on his body did not damage his muscles and bones, and he recovered quickly. He and Wang Jin found Wei Dayong together. Seeing that he had brought so many troops, especially a squadron of more than 200 special forces members, he became more confident about the future of the war of resistance and acted very actively. After he became familiar with the place, he took the initiative to serve as a guide.
Wei Dayong led a special force and a reinforced battalion of the Yunnan Army to secretly pass through the areas controlled by the Japanese and puppets. The team of nearly a thousand people was silent and did not alert the Japanese and puppet troops.
Wang Jin introduced Chen Asong's situation to Wei Dayong. Wei Dayong also had a good impression of Chen Asong. When he learned that Chen Asong wanted to join the special operations team, Wei Dayong promised to give him a chance to test himself. After the unit arrived at its destination and stabilized, he would be given special operations training. If he can adapt, recruit him to join the special teams.
Chen Asong was so excited that he vowed to work harder and pass the special team's inspection.
On this day, Wei Dayong received a telegram from Xu Dalong, asking them to speed up their march and rush to Maiba Town as soon as possible to participate in the next battle.
That night, Chen Asong took the initiative to serve as a guide and led the way ahead with Wang Jin. They walked more than 20 kilometers in the dark. At 4 o'clock in the morning, we encountered a blockade built by the Japanese and puppets in front of us. This blockade was made of bamboo fences.
The last time Xu Dalong and others crossed the blockade from here, but the situation has changed. At that time, the number of Japanese and puppet troops was larger and the blockade was tighter. But now that the puppet troops have been mobilized in large numbers, the Japanese troops on the blockade are obviously insufficient. At that time, the gun towers very close to each other were guarded by Japanese and puppet troops, but now, except for those near villages and towns, the other strongholds are deserted.
After reconnaissance, the special operations team members led by Wang Jin determined that there were no Japanese and puppet troops in this area. He reported to Wei Dayong, and then the special operations team members began to dismantle the bamboo fence, and then the large troops began to cross the road.
At this moment, lights appeared on the road in the distance. Judging by the number of car lights, there are thirty or forty vehicles in this convoy. The car was driving here, and Wei Dayong immediately ordered the troops to hide.
At this moment, the radio's indicator light suddenly lit up, and a telegram was sent. In order to avoid exposing the target, the operator hurriedly took off his hat and covered the flashing indicator light.
The Japanese convoy came over and passed by the road in a mighty manner. The special operations team members and the officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army on the side of the road could vaguely see with the help of the car lights that the cars were full of heavily armed Japanese. There were many trucks towing cannons behind them, and it seemed that they were heading towards Myanmar.
After the Japanese convoy moved away, the radio operator reported the situation to Wei Dayong. Wei Dayong instructed the telegraph operators to pay attention to copying telegrams at all times, and then led all the troops across the highway and continued to move forward.
Soon after, the radio's indicator light came on again. The telegraph operator copied the telegram, which was sent by Xu Dalong, saying that there was a battle on their side and asking Wei Dayong and others to speed up their march.
After reading the message sent by Xu Dalong, Wei Dayong called Chen Asong and asked him about the nearest town. Wei Dayong wanted to seize the vehicle from there so that he could rush to reinforce Xu Dalong as soon as possible. As for whether to alert the Japanese and puppet troops, he no longer cared about it. There was nothing he could do about it. The troops had been marching all night and were still more than 70 kilometers away from Xu Dalong and the others. It was impossible to catch up on foot and they had to use transportation.
Chen Asong told Wei Dayong that there is a county town more than ten kilometers away from here. Wei Dayong did not hesitate and ordered Chen Asong to lead the way and lead the troops on a rapid march.
Following Wei Dayong was a reinforcement battalion sent by the Second Division of the Yunnan Army. All of these officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army were also good, although their physical fitness was slightly lower than that of the special forces members. However, their performance was very tenacious. From Yangon City to here, no officer or soldier in the entire battalion was left behind. Although they had already traveled all night, they still cheered up and continued their rapid march with the special forces members.
The officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army were able to show such tenacity to a certain extent because they were infected by the special operations team members. They admired the toughness of those special operations team members.
The officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army are also good men in the army, and they want to save face. Seeing that the special operations team members were able to persevere, they all gritted their teeth and persevered.
Why did Xu Dalong and the others suddenly have a fight?
Captain Watanabe was very active in dealing with Xu Dalong, but others didn't know that he had his own Xiao Jiujiu in his heart. The reason why he proposed that the air force participate in the war was actually because he didn't want to fight Xu Dalong. Facing an extremely powerful opponent like Xu Dalong, he had no confidence in winning.
Watanabe made excessive demands just to delay time. If his superiors were unable to send the air force to join the war, and he led the team to fight Xu Dalong and failed, he would have reason to shirk responsibility.
But the superiors readily agreed and sent the air force to cooperate with his wing in combat. Watanabe had no excuse and had no choice but to bite the bullet and prepare to attack Xu Dalong. They were very lucky. At this moment, there was news that the British army and the Yuanzheng army were on the border with Burma and Malaysia, and there were signs of attacking the Japanese army in Malaysia.
His superiors were about to mobilize Watanabe's troops to deal with the Yuanzheng Army and the British Army, and he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, he didn't take it seriously at all, whether it was the British army or the Yuanzheng army. To deal with the British and Yuanzheng troops of the same size, even if he were to use a regiment to deal with an enemy division or even an army, he was full of confidence in victory.
Facing Xu Dalong, although he heard that he only had dozens of special forces members and hundreds of guerrillas with backward equipment and training, his heart was pounding. None of the Japanese generals who had fought with Xu Dalong before were able to please him. He himself was Xu Dalong's defeated general, and now he had no confidence in fighting Xu Dalong.
Now that Watanabe had such a good excuse, he acted very actively. He immediately convened a meeting of officers above the squadron commander to get them ready to go to the Myanmar-Malaysia border to deal with the British and Yuanzheng troops.
Takakura and Tanaka wanted to use Watanabe's power to deal with Xu Dalong. They also racked their brains on Watanabe's request for the air force to participate in the war. They made a lot of efforts and finally satisfied Watanabe's request. Unexpectedly, things changed again. The Watanabe unit was about to be transferred, and their attempt to round up Xu Dalong failed all of a sudden, which made them extremely disappointed.
The two found Watanabe, hoping that he could launch an attack on Xu Dalong's troops before heading to the Myanmar-Malaysia border. Watanabe declined bluntly. Gao Cang and Tanaka finally figured it out. At the beginning, they asked Watanabe to deal with Xu Dalong, but Watanabe was procrastinating. However, when they heard that the troops were about to leave the Myanmar-Malaysia border, Watanabe acted so quickly. Obviously, Watanabe didn't want to fight Xu Dalong.
Gao Cang and Tanaka were unwilling, but they had no choice. The rapid mobile troops that were assigned to three squadrons by their superiors have now been taken back. The two are now bare commanders, and the only troops they can mobilize are some military police and puppet troops. Relying on these people, even the two of them have no confidence to deal with Xu Dalong.
Both Takakura and Tanaka were unwilling to give in. They held an urgent consultation and then sent a telegram to Yamashita Fengfumi, stating the dangers of Xu Dalong, and suggested that the Watanabe Regiment launch an offensive campaign against Xu Dalong's headquarters before setting off, first to eliminate Xu Dalong, and then Then deal with the British army and Yuanzheng army.
After Yamashita received the telegram jointly sent by Takakura and Tanaka, after repeated deliberation, he agreed with Takakura's opinion and issued an order to the commander of the Kawamoto Division, asking him to mobilize the 20th Regiment of the 5th Division to march to Burma. border. The Japanese army that Wei Dayong and others encountered was part of the 20th Regiment.
Yamashita Fengwen ordered the Fifth Division to dispatch the Watanabe Regiment to attack Xu Dalong's headquarters in accordance with the original battle plan. He emphasized that the main goal of this combat operation was to deal with Xu Dalong, and that he must make every effort to capture or eliminate Xu Dalong alive.
After receiving the telegram from Yamashita Tombumi, the commander of the Kawamoto Division made a phone call to the Watanabe Regiment and asked him to follow Yamashita Tombumi's order.
After sending a telegram to Yamashita Fengfumi, Takakura and Tanaka were very anxious, waiting for a reply from their superiors. At this moment, a staff officer brought by Gao Cang told Gao Cang that the liaison staff sent by the Air Force had already driven away because the Watanabe Wing no longer planned to attack Xu Dalong's headquarters.
Gao Cang and Tanaka were very anxious after hearing this. If the Air Force does not participate in the war, Captain Watanabe will definitely procrastinate, and it will be even more hopeless to eliminate Xu Dalong. The two briefly discussed it, and Tanaka drove to catch up with the air force major who had left.
On the road, Tanaka kept urging the driver to speed up. They hurriedly and slowly caught up with the Air Force major after four hours. They begged the air force sergeant to stay temporarily and wait for orders from their superiors.
The air force major was unwilling to pay attention to them and insisted on returning to his unit. Tanaka gritted his teeth and took out the five large yellow croakers he had collected, stuffed them into the Air Force Major's hand, and asked him to help the Watanabe Wing fight this battle.
For the sake of the gold bars, the Air Force Major agreed to Tanaka's request and returned to the Watanabe Wing with him.
After Captain Watanabe received the order from the commander of the Kawamoto Division, his scalp felt numb and he wanted to find an excuse to shirk it. However, the division commander said in the order that this was Yamashita Fengwen's order and he must execute it.
Watanabe had no choice. Fortunately, the Air Force liaison officer had already left. Watanabe hoped that the Air Force would refuse to participate in the war, so as to give him an excuse not to attack Xu Dalong. However, he underestimated the determination of Takakura and Tanaka. Tanaka actually invited back the air force major who had left. Now he had no excuses to shirk anymore, so he gathered his team and headed towards Maiba Town. Attack forward.
Based on the suggestions of Takakura and Tanaka, Watanabe decided to conduct a night attack on Maiba Town. The main operational intention was to encircle Maiba Town and prevent Xu Dalong and others from taking advantage of the chaos to break through. They just built an encirclement on the outside to prevent them from escaping. They planned to wait until daybreak and then send planes to bomb them first to eliminate the effective strength of Xu Dalong's troops as much as possible. If Xu Dalong can be directly blown up, everything will be fine; even if he can't be blown up, most of the guerrillas can be eliminated, and then it will be much easier to deal with Xu Dalong.
Watanabe, Gao Cang and Tanaka are all very cautious when dealing with Xu Dalong. In order to prevent Xu Dalong from noticing their intentions, he first let out the news that the troops were going to the Myanmar-Malaysia border to deal with the British and Yuanzheng troops. Under such circumstances, it is relatively normal for the troops to prepare for departure.
That night, Watanabe and others led a large group of people to leave Zhencheng and headed for the Myanmar-Malaysia border. They suddenly turned around on the road and took a detour towards Maiba Town, hoping to catch Xu Dalong off guard.
Unfortunately, Watanabe and others still underestimated Xu Dalong's vigilance. The 19th Japanese Regiment in Zhencheng is the Japanese unit that poses the greatest threat to the guerrillas, and is naturally the target of Xu Dalong's focus. He dispatched special forces and members of the guerrilla intelligence team to monitor the actions of the Japanese 19th Regiment day and night.
