Chapter 180: Snake Butt, Where Are You Taking the Cooking Company?

Hu Xianqun watched the th Division set out, his heart full of hatred.

I'm at least the tank regiment commander, but now look—I have tanks yet haven't set out, and I'm stuck in the mud.

Indeed, Hu Xianqun also attended the pre‑expedition meeting, so he naturally knew the movements of the th Division.

Because the tank regiment couldn't march in the rainy season, Dai Anlan left Hu Xianqun's tank regiment in Lashu, not knowing Jiang Anguo's WarSystem.

"Lin Yi, little brother, do you have any spare weapons and equipment?" Hu Xianqun asked as he came to Lin Yi's side.

Lin Yi turned back curiously and said, "What, Regiment Commander Hu, does your unit still need to change weapons?"

"Hey, Lin Yi, little brother, look at the th Division, then look at my tank regiment; it would be better to give each of my tank regiment a rifle, and also help Brother Jiang with the situation." Hu Xianqun said.

Hu Xianqun hated Myanmar's terrible roads; he also knew that these big machines were very delicate— even if the road weren't bad, after a five‑hundred‑mile march the tanks would basically be wrecked upon reaching the destination.

Lin Yi calculated that what his own regiment needed most now was manpower; Hu Xianqun's tank regiment, with about two thousand men, counted as a strong force.

But this tank regiment was originally slated for the expedition; however, the weather turned against them, and even Dai Anlan's Jeep wasn't very useful.

"Alright, Regiment Commander Hu, gather your regiment immediately; I'll have people deliver weapons and equipment. Also, you and I will each send a telegram to Commander Dai; your unit will follow behind." Lin Yi said, then went to prepare weapons and equipment for the tank regiment.

Perhaps neither Lin Yi nor Hu Xianqun could have imagined that after Hu Xianqun's tank regiment reached Tonggu, they would undergo a second re‑equipment.

Hu Xianqun arrived at his base, and everyone was frustrated that the tanks were stuck in the mud and couldn't set out.

"Brothers, tell me, do you want to go to the battlefield and fight the Japanese?" Hu Xianqun shouted from atop a T‑34 tank.

"Regiment Commander, of course we do. We came to Myanmar to fight the Japanese," a soldier said.

More and more people echoed.

The tank regiment's soldiers were driven mad; they originally entered Myanmar to kill the Japanese, but the tanks broke down before even reaching Lashu, leaving their combat power essentially gone.

Hu Xianqun nodded and said, "Good, that's the spirit I need. Now everyone abandon the tanks, pick up rifles; my tank regiment, even without tanks, can still kill the Japanese."

"Kill the Japanese."

"Kill the Japanese."

"Kill the Japanese."

Good fellows, the tank regiment moved like hungry wolves; just as Lin Yi finished preparing weapons and equipment, they began re‑equipping, faster than the th Division.

They took up weapons, not knowing if they could even fire.

At Regiment Commander Hu Xianqun's shout, "Depart."

All the tank regiment's soldiers followed Hu Xianqun, marching on foot for the expedition.

To meet marching requirements, Lin Yi equipped everyone with three days of rations; how to solve it after three days would depend on Song Yunfei's air force unit to conduct an air drop.

To be absolutely safe, the air‑drop unit would drop supplies ahead along the marching route.

Lashu had plenty of transport vehicles, but because of the weather and the terrible road, it was simply impossible.

For the marching supply transport, Lin Yi equipped the th Division with enough bicycles.

A bicycle could carry about sixty jin of supplies, but Dai Anlan, being ruthless, loaded each with a hundred jin.

Moreover, Lin Yi cobbled together hundreds of unicycles in a very short time; as for the wooden boards, they came from demolition.

Recently many Myanmar residents have disappeared in Lashu, and those houses were useless, so they were simply torn down.

"Damn, She Pigu, where are you taking the cooking company?" Lin Yi said, looking at She Pigu Ma Dazhi, who led a cooking company, holding weapons and a big pot on his back.

She Pigu Ma Dazhi chuckled, "Regiment Commander Lin, I'm going to cook for our commander."

"Hey hey hey." Lin Yi reached behind.

"Hurry, speed up the march for me," Ma Dazhi shouted without turning his head, and the cooking company's soldiers behind him ran faster than a car.

In the blink of an eye they were already out of Lin Yi's shouting range, leaving Lin Yi helpless behind.

Good fellows, even the cooking company got involved; at this moment Lin Yi felt very conflicted.

He wondered whether he should also go to the front line, but he knew there were more important tasks to handle.

The meals in Lashu kept getting worse by the day; Lin Yi could hardly find anyone who could cook.

The Japanese never expected that the expeditionary force they were being chased by would prepare a counter‑offensive.

Jiang Anguo saw the telegram's contents and finally smiled, "My brother‑in‑law can still deliver when it counts, but what's up with this tank regiment and cooking company?"

Anyway, Jiang Anguo now doesn't need She Pigu's cooking company on the front line.

The cooking company in the rear also contributes to the war.

What excited Jiang Anguo most was that Dai Anlan brought the th Division over, increasing his odds of winning at Tonggu.

In fact, he wasn't fighting a battle he lacked confidence in; at Tonggu, he was still very confident.

Perhaps the Japanese didn't expect that, besides the Tonggu campaign and Ren'ankiang, the allied forces being chased all the way would launch a counter‑attack when the battle was about to turn defensive.

But Jiang Anguo said little about it, merely stating, "The more the merrier; I'm going to smash the Japanese hard at Tonggu."

"Keep Song Yunfei's aviation squad ready at all times; the first thing I'll do is go against the grain." Jiang Anguo said.

Meng Fanle didn't understand what the regiment commander meant by "go against the grain," but immediately stood straight and said, "Yes, regiment commander."

Jiang Anguo looked up at the sky, which was about to rain again, and said, "Damned heavens, giving me seven days of rain is great; it's raining every day, as if the sky's about to collapse!"

Two days after the th Division set out, Liaison Du Lvming arrived at Lashu.

Colonel Ma Youwei stared at the expeditionary force in Lashu City dressed in German Uniforms, barely able to believe it.

After questioning the soldiers patrolling the road, he confirmed the headquarters' location and reported it back home.

What frustrated Colonel Ma was that he couldn't find the th Division's senior commander; the only senior commander was the commander of the 598th Regiment, Gao Jiren.

"Commander Gao, may I ask where Commander Dai has gone?" Colonel Ma had already been in Lashu for two days.

But those two days were frustrating; no matter how he asked or pursued, no one said where the th Division had gone.

The people he brought also tallied Lashu's current troop numbers; although there wasn't a full division, there were more than two regiments' worth of troops.

That number makes sense, since in the Myanmar Campaign the th Division has been fighting the Japanese from the start, so its losses are naturally huge.

The crucial point is that he hadn't even seen Commander Dai, which struck him as very odd.

After much difficulty, he caught the Gao Jiren who was about to slip away, and with one hand seized the other.

"This." Gao Jiren also didn't know how to answer.

After all, they had no orders from above, yet they went into battle.

"Please clearly tell me where Colonel Dai Anlan has gone," Ma Youwei said solemnly.

Having no other choice, Gao Jiren could only say, "Our colonel is preparing to counterattack Tonggu."

Ma Youwei was incredulous, eyes wide, "What, a counterattack on Tonggu?"

Ma Youwei felt that Dai Anlan must be insane; all units of the Expeditionary Force were preparing to rest, no one knew the Japanese Army's next move, yet the 200th Division here at Lashu was actually preparing a counterattack on Tonggu.