The battle situation was critical, within ten days of the Chinese Expeditionary Force announcing its entry into Burma, the 1st Division of the British and Burmese Army, the 17th Division of the British and Indian Army, and the headquarters of the 7th British Armored Brigade were defeated and retreated from the frontline positions......

Zhang Wei and nearly 3,000 brothers of the Second Supplementary Regiment witnessed the defeat of thousands of British troops and fleeing civilians in the Ekechun position outside the ancient city, and the sea of people flowed by, but the Second Supplementary Regiment had to be firmly nailed to the position.

The officers and men of the whole regiment, including Zhang Wei, were under great psychological pressure, and these days, there were more than 30 Anglo-Burmese troops that had been disarmed by the second regiment alone, and more than 150 Bren-type light machine guns alone had been collected.

The British army withheld more than four tons of ammunition and rations, all kinds of ammunition and supplies, a whole cartload of butter, canned food, fruit candy, milk candy, compressed biscuits, and even furniture and household items...... Piled up with logistical warehouses for the replenishment of the 2nd regiment.

Among the intercepted equipment, there are also big guys, which are two Crusader tanks intercepted from the hands of the British Armored Seventh Brigade, both of which are equipment brought back from North Africa by the British Armored Seventh Brigade.

From a certain point of view, Zhang Wei can also be regarded as a "war wealth." ”

There are more and more materials and equipment, however, the life of the brothers of the second regiment is not very easy, since the news that the Japanese army is less than 30 kilometers away from Tonggu, Zhang Wei ordered the whole regiment to be on high alert, and the brothers of the second regiment are living every day without leaving their guns, sleeping without undressing, everyone's nerves are highly tense, and even some recruit brothers who enlisted late have nightmares in sleep.

Under Zhang Wei's high-pressure policy of preparing for war, although the brothers did not eat and drink badly, their spiritual strings were already tightened to the fullest.

There is no way, the war is imminent, Zhang Wei can only adopt a high-pressure policy and suppress the brothers of the whole regiment.

In ancient times, the Japanese army was in the front, and this place would bear the brunt of the battle. The grim situation has tested the psychological quality and ability of every officer and soldier of the Second Supplementary Regiment to bear pressure.

Depression is the best adjective to supplement the atmosphere in the position of the Second Regiment recently.

In mid-March, the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, which had been nailed to Tonggu for a long time, finally received reinforcements, and the vanguard of the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the main force of the Tonggu garrison, composed of 200 divisions of the Fifth Army and the directly subordinate troops reinforced by the Fifth Army, finally arrived at Tonggu after expedited transportation by railway line, and the main force of the vanguard defenders, with a total number of 13,000, took the train to unload and assemble at the Nanyang Railway Station on the outskirts of Tonggu City, and galloped to reinforce Tonggu.

The second regiment was replenished, and a strong reinforcement was ushered in, and a solid backing was obtained.

In the planned battle plan, the 2nd Supplementary Regiment and the 200th Division were both given the title of "vanguard", the 2nd Supplementary Regiment was the vanguard of the Expeditionary Force, and the 200th Division was the vanguard of the Expeditionary Force.

In addition to the troops within the 200th Division, Commander Du also transferred a battalion from the engineer regiment directly under the Fifth Army, and transferred two companies of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion and the cavalry regiment directly under the army to the 200th Division.

Therefore, the 200 divisions reinforced to Tonggu can be described as strong and fat, which is equivalent to an extra regiment of additional troops (an engineer battalion, a flat-fire artillery battalion, and two cavalry companies) in addition to the original establishment, and the firepower has also been greatly enhanced, the original 200 divisions are just an ordinary infantry division, and the heaviest firearms are only 82 mortars. The artillery firepower was changed from medium-caliber curved support fire to flat-firing artillery firepower, and the firepower of the whole division made a qualitative leap.

All this is to prepare for the upcoming Tonggu War, and Zhang Wei's supplementary second regiment is naturally also a direct beneficiary.

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In the well-decorated British Authorities' Hotel in the same ancient city, Zhang Wei and the newly arrived officers of the 200th Division gathered together to watch, and the imminent war had basically paralyzed all kinds of public and commercial institutions in the same ancient city, and the hotel was no exception.

Most of the personnel of the British authorities in charge of the management of the hotel had already run out, and only a dozen Burmese waiters were still there, and the 200th Division had just arrived, and Zhang Wei, as the first to arrive, was indispensable for a feast to catch the wind and wash the dust, so Zhang Wei pulled the senior officers of the 200th Division to the British and Burmese authorities in the same ancient place, and used the place of the British to fulfill the friendship of the landlord.

The dining table is already full of meals, most of them are Burmese dishes, Zhang Wei sent people to spend money in the city to find cooks everywhere, the cooks in the hotel have long run out, in addition, there are a few Chinese dishes made by the second group, stewed pork, stewed river fish, boiled meat slices, the combination of China and Myanmar, made up such a feast.

The appearance of the food was average, the portions were quite sufficient, the table was hot, and the senior officers of the 200th Division stepped up their march all the way, and when they saw the meal prepared by Zhang Wei, they all had a great appetite.

At the banquet, most of them were senior officers of the 200th Division, Division Commander Dai, Colonel Zheng Tingji, Infantry Commander of the 200th Division and Commander of the 598th Regiment, Colonel Liu Shuren, Commander of the 599th Regiment, Colonel Liu Shaofeng, Commander of the 600th Regiment, Colonel Zhou Zhizai, Chief of Staff of the Division, and several lieutenant colonels and deputy regiment commanders, all of whom were Whampoa graduates.

Zhang Wei personally greeted him, and brought the regiment attached to Zheng Yiqun, a table of officers around the delicacies, happy, in a foreign country, see the brothers are more cordial, not to mention the same army comrades-in-arms, after the officers entered the table, as if there were endless words, Zhang Wei, even became the focus of attention, was pulled to the side by Commander Dai to sit down, put his heart in his heart, and talked about the current situation.

Zhang Wei and Division Commander Dai are no strangers, as early as the Battle of Kunlun Pass, the two had fought side by side together, and their friendship was not shallow.

At the table, when the Burmese waiter put the last dish on the table, Zhang Wei took the initiative to greet the officers present, and then took out a piece of paper from his briefcase and handed it to Commander Dai.

"Senior Dai, seniors, comrades, your ministry is new to Tonggu, on behalf of the brothers of the whole regiment, I give a thin gift to the brothers of the 200th division, please smile."

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