"Okay, very good!"
Dai Anlan was overjoyed when he saw the telegram: "Use me in the first battle, and you will win if you use me! You have momentum, you have momentum!"
The victory of the Pew River Bridge gave the Chinese Expeditionary Force a good start.
This also proves to the Allies that we are an iron army with strong combat effectiveness!
"Huh? Isn't that right?"
After the joy, Dai Anlan suddenly became confused: "Why is it the good news from Meng Shaoyuan? Where is Ding Wenrui?"
"Mr. Dai, I'm afraid you don't know much about it."
Chief of Staff Zhou Zhizai smiled and said: "I have also asked people about Meng Shaoyuan. He is very capable at work and his methods of solving cases are often incredible. The Japanese secret service is afraid of him. Not only does he call him a public enemy of Japan, but he also Call him the Invincible Tiger of the Empire.
However, this person's reputation is not very good, especially in terms of life style. Arrogant and extravagant, lustful and absurd. Another point is that when you see a loophole, you will take advantage of it. If you give him a chance, he will make trouble. Our Commander Xue Yue was deceived by him.
Now you give him a false position attached to the regiment. He is also a lieutenant colonel and has a higher official rank than Ding Wenrui. Judging from his reputation, can Ding Wenrui control him? This telegram is the best proof! "
"In my Two Hundred Division, if he dared to jump up and down, I would shoot him!" Dai Anlan sneered.
"He was shot several times."
"Then I'll bury him alive!"
"He was also buried alive, with the earth covering his head." Zhou Zhizai smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that I let others' prestige destroy my own spirit. This Meng Shaoyuan is not only Dai Li's favorite general, but also a disciple of the Emperor. Everyone looked at him differently. I heard people say that sometimes he dared to make unreasonable demands in front of the committee members.
There was also another incident where he saved his wife’s life, twice! Once, the commissioner and his wife escaped from Xi'an. At Nanjing Airport, he thought of a way to land the plane safely at Nanjing Airport. Another time, at the Chongqing Army Hospital, he promptly shattered the Japanese special agency's plot to assassinate his wife.
So, even if a person like this makes our two hundred divisions very upset, can you really kill him? This guy is a hot potato, and since Dai Li refuses to let him go, calling him again and again to ask for him, I think we should just send him away. "
"Old Zhou, let me tell you the truth." Dai Anlan suddenly said: "I met Chief Xue when I was in Chongqing, and I talked about Meng Shaoyuan when I was chatting with Chief Xue. You know how Chief Xue treated him Evaluated?
Chief Xue said that Meng Shaoyuan was a rogue, but very useful. If you had the opportunity to cooperate with him, you should reuse him and use him to death to defend Changsha. Meng Shaoyuan provided countless valuable information.
When he is needed, he can often come up with many seemingly incredible ideas, and some problems can naturally be solved. But when using this person, you have to guard against him and collect his bones from time to time. "
but. Dai Anlan never imagined that Xue Yue had unspoken thoughts at that time:
You, Dai Haiou (Dai Anlan), are a loyal person and are definitely good at fighting, but when it comes to being cunning, you really can't beat Rascal Meng!
But Xue Yue still didn't say this after all.
At first he knew that once the expeditionary force went out, the military commander would definitely be involved.
Who did Dai Li send?
Except for his confidant and favorite general Meng Shaoyuan, he will not consider the second choice.
If Dai Anlan is too wary of him, I'm afraid it won't be easy for the two of them to cooperate.
Secondly, Xue Yue actually felt a little gloating about his misfortune.
You can't always be the one being harassed by Meng Shaoyuan all day long, right?
Let Dai Anlan have a taste of this too.
“Mr. He gave me two precious boxes of penicillin. No matter how bad a person like this is, he can't be bad at all!"
The bad thing is that if you, Mr. Dai, had such an evaluation of that scoundrel from the beginning, it would be really bad.
"Use me in the first battle, and you will win if you use me!" Dai Anlan thought about this sentence again: "These eight words are so powerful. I saw Tong Gu, and I have to have a good talk with him."
…
There was something very strange about the expeditionary force's first battle in Burma.
The Japanese commander Lieutenant Colonel Itano, who suffered a tragic defeat, reported this to his superiors:
Encountered the main force of the British-Burmese Army on the Tonggu front line, suspected to be the 17th Division of the British-Indian Army.
"A large number of Indian soldiers stood firm and were equipped with artillery and tanks. The firepower was extremely fierce..."
Indian soldiers?
It is estimated that if Meng Shaoyuan saw this report, he would be furious.
What do you think about us like Asan's soldiers?
Do you think Asians all look exactly the same?
However, Lieutenant Commander Itano cannot be entirely blamed.
After all, in his impression, troops equipped with artillery and tanks could never be the Chinese army!
From another aspect, it also confirms that on the Burma battlefield, the Japanese army was relatively chaotic regarding intelligence work.
Until the main force of the 200 Division entered Tonggu, the Japanese army still did not discover it.
In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Itano provided wrong intelligence, which made the Japanese army believe that the British military strength in Tonggu was strengthened, which further strengthened their plan to capture Yangon first, and then rest and recuperate before seizing Tonggu.
This plan bought enough time for the main force of the 200 Division to enter Tonggu and for the secret entry of armored vehicles.
In order to increase confidentiality, all tanks of the 200 Division are transported by trucks.
The confidentiality is impeccable, but it also brings side effects.
For example, the heavy-duty T-26 tank can only be separated and transported by three trucks, which also prevents battlefield weapons like the T-26 from arriving in Tonggu in time.
Everything has pros and cons.
It is impossible for you to take all the good things by yourself.
The Japanese army in Myanmar did not pay attention to intelligence work, but there was one person who did:
Meng Shaoyuan!
He is an intelligence worker himself and knows how important intelligence work is to the war, especially in a strange place like Myanmar.
The war is coming.
You can only do these things yourself.
While he sent people to closely monitor the movements of the British army, he asked the military commander to immediately dispatch manpower to him.
Before the military agents arrived, he had to select people from overseas Chinese to conduct a secret investigation in Tonggu to eliminate the possibility of any Japanese special forces lurking.
In fact, the possibility of Japanese special forces lurking in Tonggu is relatively small, but it is something that the British need to pay close attention to.
We can't count on them to help, but we definitely can't let them cause trouble. Don't just stab the expeditionary force at the most critical moment.
Before the excitement of defeating the Japanese army had passed, Meng Shaoyuan was already very busy.
Originally, his thoughts were still wandering around He Yu, but when he became busy, he couldn't care about anything else.
Seeing that the main force led by Dai Anlan was about to arrive, he had to think carefully about how to deal with Dai Anlan.
