Protect the city.

Fang Zhiqiu could clearly feel that as they began to hand over to the Huben Army, the more they did, the more they felt a sense of urgency.

A feeling that war was about to break out at any time permeated the entire command center as the Tiger Guards outside the city began to integrate their troops.

Five divisions, an artillery brigade, a tank and armored reserve regiment, a logistics brigade, a logistics support brigade, a field hospital...

Just by starting to integrate the troops, they could feel the atmosphere of the coming war.

"Chief Commander, the ammunition and equipment of the entire division may not be able to keep up with the Tiger Guards..." Han Shaoyun said, taking out a list and handing it to Fang Zhiqiu.

"Damn mountain city, the ammunition hasn't been delivered yet?"

When Fang Zhiqiu saw the list, he couldn't help but curse. Now, both the Japanese and them were ready to make a move because of the arrival of the Tiger Guards.

Xu Sanwu walked quickly into the command center with a smile on his face so that Fang Zhiqiu could see it, and his eyes were fixed on his face.

"Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer, Shancheng has sent equipment and ammunition for a reinforced division!" Xu Sanwu said loudly.

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Whether it was Han Shaoyun or Fang Zhiqiu, their pupils were both large and their eyes were filled with astonishment.

As a logistics personnel, Han Shaoyun knew clearly what a reinforced division meant.

"A reinforced division? Is Shancheng so kind?" Fang Zhiqiu looked surprised.

Not only was the equipment, which had been delayed for so long, suddenly given to them, but it was also a reinforced division?

No matter how you look at it, Fang Zhiqiu is a little confused. Now he refuses to receive the telegram from the foreigners.

It’s good enough that there is no transfer order for him, but now you are giving him equipment?

What is Shancheng talking about?

"Chief Engineer, I heard from the brothers who delivered the equipment that Lin Jun stood alone outside the city for a long time. Lin Jun was the only one there, and the whole city dared not move. He was like one man suppressing a whole city..."

Xu Sanwu's tone was excited. When he first heard the news, it was like listening to a storyteller telling a story.

"Which storyteller did you hear this joke from?" Fang Zhiqiu frowned and said to Xu Sanwu.

Seeing that Fang Zhiqiu didn't believe him, Xu Sanwu immediately took out a newspaper from his pocket and placed it in front of everyone.

"The latest newspaper in the mountain city!" Xu Sanwu put the newspaper on the table.

Fang Zhiqiu picked it up immediately. The picture was black and white, and he could vaguely see a figure standing proudly among the mountains.

The whole city was filled with soldiers and civilians standing inside and outside the mountain city. The soldiers were fully armed and the people were eagerly waiting.

The photo was blurry, but the aura of it stunned Fang Zhiqiu.

The appearance of this photo made Fang Zhiqiu's pupils reveal astonishment. Han Shaoyun and even some people in the command room stood on tiptoe and stretched their heads to look at the newspaper in Fang Zhiqiu's hand.

Snapped!

"The mountain city suddenly gave them equipment, so this is the reason..." Fang Zhiqiu slammed the newspaper on the table, his eyes sharp.

"Chief Engineer, it seems that Shancheng is also afraid this time." Xu Sanwu nodded in agreement.

This batch of equipment and ammunition has been delayed for almost four months. You know, it is almost impossible to delay the delivery of equipment and ammunition on the battlefield for such a long time.

But this is nothing new here. The pressure from Lin Tianchen this time made Shancheng realize that he might indeed be disloyal.

"What is Lin Jun doing now?" Fang Zhiqiu took another look at the newspaper, but when he saw the soldiers next to him looking around, he put the newspaper directly on the table.

"General Lin and his men seem to have gathered the chief engineers to familiarize themselves with the terrain and are holding a meeting to discuss training and adaptation." Xu Sanwu responded immediately.

Fang Zhiqiu frowned and his eyes instantly became much more serious because he knew what this would mean.

"Training..."

The setting sun falls on the top of the mountains, and bright red clouds float in the sky.

In the temporary command room in the mountains, Zhang Shanwu's voice was heard at this moment.

"Twenty percent of the Fourth and Second Divisions are still unacclimated and experiencing some acclimatization issues. The remaining divisions have gradually adapted during the southern expedition. Now, they face a major challenge: mosquitoes and the potential dangers of the rainforest..."

Zhang Dan reported the situation of each division one by one.

This place is completely different from the battlefields in the three northeastern provinces and even in Jin. This is also what Lin Tianchen is most worried about at the moment.

It was hot and humid, with all kinds of mosquitoes, snakes, poisonous plants, etc. Even the road was full of thorns.

Although we asked the locals to draw some precautions, marching was still a problem.

"Well, let Wang Jiantang, Chu Yunfei and Li Weiguo strengthen their training. I will give them time." Lin Tianchen was not in a hurry to attack. The soldier's physical condition determines his combat effectiveness.

Fighting when you are sick is tantamount to seeking death.

And for now, during this period of soldier training, he also used visual maps to draw topographic maps of Nantianmen, southern Yunnan, Myanmar and other places.

The Nantianmen area was hollowed out by the Japanese and some bunkers were built. There were also some hidden bunkers and outposts in the rainforest, on the cliffs or in the mountains.

It can be said that the Japanese have made arrangements in any place of strategic significance.

They also made full use of some terrain features, but the visual map finally came in handy for detecting terrain structures.

"Although it's a bit troublesome, it doesn't have much impact." Lin Tianchen muttered in his heart. Jungle combat did not have much impact on him, and it might even be a positive improvement.

In the Northeast, the focus was more on artillery attacks, but the Japanese here built many underground bunkers. Obviously, the coverage and lethality of artillery fire were not as large as in the Northeast, and there was even a large-scale connected underground network, so a gun might appear at any time.

But at the same time, this underground network is invisible to him.

"Commander, Dark Wolf has sent us intelligence about some forces and families in Burma, as well as some warlords there."

Fang Bailu, who was standing by, handed a letter to Lin Tianchen.

Lin Tianchen picked it up and started reading.

During this period, Lin Tianchen was not only collecting information on topography and training troops, but was also making adequate preparations for events in various places.

However, when Lin Tianchen looked at the information sent by Dark Wolf, his brows furrowed.

"The Aung San family, supported by the Japanese, is now the largest force in the area."

"And the Liu family, with Shancheng secretly supporting them..."

"There's also a local force supported by John's country, the Freedom Army..."

When Lin Tianchen looked at this information, his brows furrowed.

A country without sovereignty always has a force behind it supporting and relying on it, and even the mountain city has a hand in it.

“It’s really messy…”

Lin Tianchen murmured softly, his eyes looking into the distance, his expression becoming much more serious.

Now, not only the topographical conditions, but also the forces in Myanmar are complicated.

Finally, Lin Tianchen calmed down and said calmly, "Fang Bailu, telegraph the First, Third, and Fifth Divisions to return to their bases."

"Yes." Fang Bailu heard it and immediately gave orders quickly.

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...

"Qiu Changxiao, do you think the Tiger Guards can really make it this time?"

Peng Guichuan stood on the city wall with a spear in his hand, with a complicated expression in his eyes.

Ever since he joined the expeditionary force, he clearly remembered that their regiment originally had more than 2,000 people, but after coming out of the Savage Mountain, only less than 300 people were left.

Not many people died in the battle, most of them died in the wild mountains and wilderness.

If the 21st Division had not taken them in, they might still be wandering defeated soldiers.

"I don't know." Qiu Changxiao's eyes were complicated when he looked at the Tiger Guards soldiers below, because the battle in the rainforest had already wiped out the spirit he had when he first arrived here.

Just as the two of them were talking, figures began to gather one after another, and all the soldiers were covered with black mud.

Looking closely, it looked like a black clay figure standing in the distance.

It was a dark mass, with tens of thousands of people rolling in the mud, and then rushed into the distant mountains and forests.

One group after another, never stopping, staying in the mountains for the entire day. It happened every day in the past few days, and the two of them had seen it countless times.

"The Tiger Guards...are preparing for battle!" Peng Guichuan said in a firm tone, his hand tightly gripping the spear all the while.

The shouts and the determined eyes of every soldier after training kept attacking his heart.

Just standing here, the overwhelming battle was putting pressure on them.

"Can we win?" Qiu Changxiao's eyes were complicated. On that battlefield, he had seen too many soldiers die in the mountains of a foreign country.

But Peng Guichuan did not respond, but pointed to the distance and said:

"The Tiger Guards troops trained in Akiyama Ping are back!!"

As the voice fell, many soldiers on the city looked over.

In the distance, where the sky and the earth meet, the army seems to be coming from the sky in the sunset.

Their shadows were very long.

The wind sounded like a drum, and there was a constant whistling sound.

The entire Huben Army camp began to assemble at this moment, and an unprecedented fighting spirit spread throughout the Huben Army camp.

Qiu Changxiao had never seen such a fighting spirit before. The sound of footsteps seemed to be attacking his heart, making his long-silent heart beat again.

The army gathered together, like a storm about to come.

All the soldiers in the city now focused their attention on the Tiger Guards.

The army on the ground was in chaos, but the sky was unusually calm, like the calm before a storm, which touched his heart.

"The war is about to begin..."

Tianzhu, Imphal district.

John's East Asia Headquarters.

As the sky grew darker, many soldiers had already gathered outside the headquarters and started playing volleyball.

Many foreigners also began to enjoy their leisure time.

In the headquarters room, the sound of telegrams kept coming out. An officer in military uniform with many medals hanging on his chest was sitting on a stool, leaning back and looking at a telegram in his hand.

"Carl, have the Tiger Guards really arrived to defend the city?" Clarence Mountbatten asked after adjusting his uniform.

"Sir, the news is true. According to intelligence, the Tiger Guards are training." Carl responded immediately and then refilled his cup of coffee.

While Mountbatten was reading the newspaper, Carl immediately reported some intelligence he had collected about the Tiger Guards:

"Sir, the Tiger Guards were the main force that routed the 800,000-strong Kwantung Army and ultimately recaptured the three northeastern provinces. In the Battle of Beidingyuan, they annihilated over 200 Kwantung Army tanks."

"And back in the Battle of Jincheng, the Tiger Guards used heavy artillery to bombard two Japanese warships and an aircraft carrier! When I first heard about it, I thought it was fake news, but during the Battle of Pudong, the Tiger Guards sank two cruisers and a destroyer in front of everyone..."

A sentence-by-sentence introduction.

A smile appeared on Mountbatten's lips. He had not expected that Shancheng could mobilize an undefeated army to fight in Southeast Asia.

It seems that Shancheng attaches great importance to international assistance.

"In any case, this is also a team that defeated the Kwantung Army. If they can be incorporated into our forces and obey our deployment, it will undoubtedly relieve a lot of pressure."

Mountbatten said with a smile that now in the European battlefield, the Bear Country has tied up Hans Tiger. Although they have been able to catch their breath, the Japanese in Southeast Asia are constantly advancing their attacks.

This caused them to suffer huge losses in their interests in Myanmar and completely affected their own interests.

This Tiger Guards were able to defeat the Japanese army, which was known as the strongest. Their strength should not be underestimated.

"Sir, there's one more thing. Back in the three northeastern provinces, the Xiong people wanted to interfere with the Tiger Guards, but were driven out by their commander, Lin."

Karl placed a piece of information about Lin Tianchen of the Tiger Guard in front of him and spoke in a serious tone.

Mountbatten heard this and picked up the information.

But apart from some military ranks, his origin from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, and the battles he commanded with the Tiger Guards, he could not find any other information about this person.

"He never attended any military academy? How could such an ordinary person lead the Tiger Guards to defeat the Kwantung Army and then march all the way south?"

Mountbatten's expression became more serious. After all, the information about Lin Tianchen was enough to grant him a title and a nobility in any country.

"Well, so I'm worried that such an arrogant person will not join us." Carl said worriedly.

"That's because the barbarians of Bear Country don't know how to control this country. As long as we use international pressure, countries like Shancheng and the Former Dynasty will also lean towards us. You have to remember, these yellow-skinned monkeys will only obey if you whip them. Don't give them any sweet treats."

Mountbatten said leisurely that after all, his ancestors used this method to blast open the door of their previous dynasty and took away batches of wealth.

In their family, there is a natural rule for yellow-skinned people: only by treating them forcefully will they naturally obey and comply.

They believe that this is something that is ingrained in their bones and cannot be changed...

"Mobilize the Tiger Guards to attack Nantianmen...Spread the word that we are preparing a major counterattack and put pressure on them."

Mountbatten picked up the coffee, took a sip, and said calmly.

"Yes!!"

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