Sib is just a small town, with no more than 3,000 indigenous Burmese people living here, and it is a place of mountains and rivers. The appearance of a large number of embarrassed Japanese troops made the town really chaotic for a while, and the embarrassment of the baggage wing was Yan Wudao's pursuit, and after abandoning the heavy firepower such as heavy machine guns, bazookas, and mortars, Yan Wudao took 200 mercenaries with the grenadiers in their hands, Thomson and Garand chased the baggage wing all the way to Xibu.

The cavalry wing guarding the baggage wing also tried to turn around and block Yan Wudao and them, but unfortunately the cunning mercenaries never confronted them head-on, but only used snipers to shoot those cavalry in front of them from a long distance, and then smashed them with grenadiers. "Captain, the command said that the 1st Airborne Division on the Mandalay side had already come along the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and the command told us to stand by and respond to the Airborne Division to establish a perimeter defense line in Xibu to prevent the Japanese army from retreating to Mandalay" After contacting the headquarters, Yan Wudao got the latest order.

"The devil knows when the airborne division will arrive here" and the railway between Mandalay and Xibu, which was built in 1903, had long been blown up by the thunderous infiltrator troops, and the Japanese army's sixth division did not enjoy that treatment, and the airborne division was afraid that it could only use two legs to hurry, and in desperation, Yan Wudao had to take his 200 mercenaries to bypass Xibu to find suitable terrain to establish a blocking line. Kanda Masasang, who was already on the way to retreat, had also received a telegram from the baggage wing to Xibu, and the 200 mercenaries left by Yan Wudao along the way also caused a lot of trouble to the Sixth Division, and under the strong fire of the large-caliber Browning heavy machine guns, the Sixth Division could only speed up its march and leave the ambush area.

If it weren't for the wartime, it would have taken only four hours to get to Lashio by car from Syb, but now it was wartime, and the 6th Division had abandoned almost all of its mobile forces when it retreated, and it took them six hours on foot to see the river outside the town of Syb. It was this six-hour march on foot that cost Kanda Masashi at least 3,000 soldiers, plus the 13th Wing and Tanigawa Brigade, which were completely annihilated, and when the exhausted Sixth Division withdrew to Xib, only half of the original 25,000-strong Sixth Division remained, including many wounded.

The Thunder armored force that followed the pursuit never stopped at all, and almost followed the front and rear feet of the Sixth Division to Xibu, Joey and Yan Wudao smoothly connected with each other, and the solid armored detachment also took over the task of blocking the defense line from the exhausted mercenaries. With the successive appearance of the pursuing troops, the 6th Division's full of Xibu was already in a situation of surroundment, and Xib, which was full of thatched huts and wooden houses, could not provide the necessary cover for the 6th Division, and the Japanese could only rely on the rivers flowing through the town of Xibu to organize a defensive line to resist the thunderous offensive.

"What about the casualties of the troops?" The first thing Zhao Zhi, who had driven all the way to Xibu, did when he jumped out of the car was to ask the commanders of the various units who had been summoned about the casualties of the soldiers. Breaking through the defense line of the Japanese temporary camp and the general attack behind, many Jewish soldiers were almost in close contact with the Japanese army, the Japanese army's white-knuckle combat was indeed in a strong position in Asia, and the thunder was able to defeat the sixth division only by relying on the sharpness of the weapon, and when it came to the strength of individual soldiers, those Jewish soldiers were not the opponents of the Japanese army.

"It's okay, inform the field hospital to try its best to treat the wounded soldiers" After asking all the officers, Zhao Zhi got an answer that was not very satisfactory to him. In this raid on the Sixth Division, Thunder gathered about 20,000 troops, plus the charge of tank formations and armored formations, and the cooperation of K18 artillery groups and American-made mountain artillery groups, so Thunder's 20,000 troops also suffered more than 5,000 casualties, fortunately, most of the more than 5,000 casualties were only minor casualties who could return to the battlefield, otherwise Zhao Zhi would have gone crazy on the spot.

Zhao Zhi only has 50,000 regular troops in his hands, and the rest of the mercenary troops are also scattered in Burma, if there are so many casualties in every battle, before Zhao Zhi rushes to the front line of Donghu to fight with the 22nd and 56th divisions of the Japanese army, his thunder will already be greatly injured. "The Sixth Division we are pursuing now are all cowering in the town of Xib, according to the statistics of the rearguard troops cleaning the battlefield, in the siege that ended four hours ago, we killed and captured more than 7,000 Japanese soldiers, which means that the number of Japanese troops in Xibri will not exceed 13,000, and it is extremely beneficial for us to have so many Japanese troops crowded in such a small town."

According to Zhao Zhi's deployment, the thunder troops who participated in the attack rushed to Xibu in batches to form an encirclement of the Sixth Division again, and for a whole night, the roar of cars between Xibu and Lashio did not stop, and by dawn the next day, counting the airborne division that was still on the way, more than 20,000 Thunder troops surrounded Xibu like iron buckets. "Your task is to restore the railway line from Mandalay to Lashio as much as possible, most of the railroad tracks dismantled by the infiltrator troops are hidden around the railway line, and your engineer brigade must restore the smooth flow of the railway before the large army continues to move south to Donghu, and our supplies need to be transported by rail" Mo Lun, who hurried to Xibu, was sent away by Zhao Zhi with a few words.

There was a railway between Mandalay and Lashio for a long time, but when the Japanese army entered Burma in full swing, it was destroyed by the infiltrator troops who had infiltrated Burma in advance with the Burmese guerrillas, and they dismantled large sections of the railroad tracks and hid them in the mountains and forests along the railway. Now that the Sixth Division has also been besieged by Lei Tingyang in Xibu, the entire area between Mandalay and Lashio is under the control of Lei Ting, and the resumption of railway transportation materials is naturally regarded as the top priority by Zhao Zhi.

"What about these Japanese troops who are surrounded by us?" Yan Wudao and the others waited at the headquarters for a long time, and they didn't see Zhao Zhi say a word about the Japanese army in Xibu, so the anxious Joy asked first. During the assault battle, the armored detachment commanded by Joey suffered a lot of losses, not only were all the 98 battlefields captured a few days ago blown up by the Japanese army, but even his stalker command vehicle was almost blown over by the Japanese army's meat bombs.

"Leave them alone, the task of your armored detachment is to move to Mandalay immediately, to rush to Mandalay before the Burmese guerrillas in Donghu are broken through, and the heavy artillery group and mountain artillery will also go south with you" Joy, who wanted to stay in Xibu, was driven away by Zhao Zhi, and packed up with the K18 artillery group and those American-made mountain artillery groups that came later, and let Joy escort him to Mandalay. Mandalay is a hub for the southward movement to the north, which is related to the implementation of the Thunder's follow-up plan, once the railway line is restored, Zhao Zhi's troops and supplies assembled in Lashio will be able to advance by rail and road.

"Sir, there are only our people left, what should the Japanese army do inside?" In less than an hour, all the Jewish troops who had hurried to Xibu were driven to Mandalay by Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi was left with only more than 3,000 mercenaries left. Zhao Zhi's actions were so strange, the bold and careful Yan Wudao had already guessed that Zhao Zhi must still have a back hand, he was just worried that once the Japanese army in Xibu counterattacked, the chances of 3,000 mercenaries against more than 10,000 Japanese troops were not very great.

"I'll leave 200 people here, let the other brothers surround Xibu in groups according to the team, and I'll invite you to watch the fireworks later" The smile on Zhao Zhi's face was a little cold, so that Xiao Ziyun and the others, who were skeptical, didn't dare to ask more. Thunder's Jewish troops withdrew, but the Sixth Division that was cowering in Xibu did not react, Kanda Zhengzhong was worried that this was another trap set by Thunder, and its purpose was to lure the Sixth Division to attack rashly, and then use the advantage of large forces to encircle and annihilate the Sixth Division, so Kanda Zhengzhong was bent on guarding Xibu and letting Zhao Zhi withdraw all the Jewish troops.

In less than half an hour, more than a dozen Thunder bombers appeared in the sky, and the escort fighters roared down and ravaged Xibu with machine guns. The Sixth Division, which had no power to fight back, had no choice but to rely on hastily dug trenches to dodge, but unfortunately Kanda Masashi had made a mistake this time, and the hovering bombers opened the bomb door on the belly of the plane, and several cylindrical bombs fell straight down. Flames of up to 1,500 degrees Celsius splattered and devoured everything, and the entire Xibu immediately turned into a world of flames.

"Boom" "Boom" The bombers that dropped bombs were filling the leaks, and 20 napalm bombs shrouded Xibu in the flames. "This is the incendiary bomb improved by the technicians of the arsenal after getting the information transmitted from the United States, the napalm that splashes on the person after the napalm explodes, is as viscous and burn-resistant as lard paste, if the person slaps it with his hand, the fire will get bigger and bigger, if the fire is rolled on the ground, the whole body will be on fire, and once there is more fire on the person, the people on the side should try to stay away from the person on fire, because the struggle of the person on fire is easy to throw the burning oil block on the person to form a secondary killing effect" Looking at Xibu, which has become a sea of fire, Zhao Zhi whispered to the staff officers around him to introduce this kind of coagulation incendiary bomb.

"It took a whole year to make these 20 napalm incendiary bombs, this is the bottom of our thunder pressure box, only our own people know, I don't really believe those Jews" Zhao Zhi's words had obvious hints, which made Xiao Ziyun and his young officers listen to the blood boiling, and Zhao Zhi finally regarded them as his own. "The Jews only promised to help me fight for 5 years, and now it has been two years, and there have been negative voices in the Jewish settlements in Kunming, and it would be better to have some things in our own hands."