The Burmese city of Tonggu, 250 kilometers away from Yangon in the south and 320 kilometers away from Mandalay in the north, is an important city and strategic point of the Yangman Railway, and there is Keyonggang Airport in the northwest, which is a place that the Japanese army must quickly occupy. On the other hand, we believe that it echoes Prome on the Western Front and Moltke on the Eastern Front, and constitutes a barrier to prevent the Japanese army from attacking north. Especially after the fall of Yangon, the battle with ancient times became even more important. Due to the rout of the Anglo-Burmese 1st Division, the 200th Division under the command of General Dai Anlan quickly occupied Tonggu and actively began to prepare for defensive operations to block the Japanese army's northward advance! The 200th Division is an old unit of the Fifth Army, with a high degree of mechanization and good quality of soldiers, which was single-handedly produced by Du Yuming, and Liu Hai also served as the artillery commander of the 200th Division! This time he attacked Burma, General Dai Anlan was determined to fight a bloody battle with the Japanese army and take the lead in entering Burma, and this time he received the task of defending Tonggu, which was to have a good fight with the Japanese devils in Tonggu and make a good start for the Chinese Expeditionary Force!

At this time, the 55th Division and the 66th Division of the Japanese Army, with a total of more than 30,000 people and more than 70 artillery pieces, pounced on them under the cover of the air! The plan of the Japanese army is to use the 55th Division to quickly break through Tonggu and completely smash the Prome, Tonggu and Moltke defense lines built by Britain and Burma from the middle line, so as to open the passage as soon as possible and completely cut off the strategic passage between China and Burma! Takeuchi Kuan, the commander of the 55th Division of the Japanese Army, looked down on the British and Chinese troops very much, especially the British army, since the landing of the British army, the British army was generally desperately fleeing, and Takeuchi followed behind the butt of the British for more than ten days, and the British Wicks cannon alone picked up no less than fifty, and the ammunition and materials were countless. But it backfired, after Takeuchi's advance brigade entered the periphery of Tonggu, it found a well-constructed position and a very reasonable arrangement of firepower, and the Japanese brigade that attacked tentatively found that the other side was not only well-trained, but also had very strong firepower, and even armored tank vehicles, which made the Japanese advance brigade captain very shocked, and quickly sent someone to spread the news to Takeuchi's ears!

Takeuchi didn't think so, thinking that his advance brigade was not strong enough in firepower, so he would make a fuss, and when the main force of his division arrived, he would naturally break it. But when Takeuchi arrived with the main force of his division, seeing was believing. The elite reconnaissance company of the 200th Division ambushed a Japanese squadron at the Pew Bridge and blew up the Pew Bridge, delaying the Japanese for up to five hours. Finally arrived in Tonggu, Takeuchi ordered an attack, in the tentative attack, a large group of Japanese troops suffered heavy casualties, and was attacked by enemy fire, what surprised Takeuchi the most was that the other side had so many light machine guns and *, the Japanese army's single-shot revolting rifle was not an opponent at all! The combat quality of the opposing soldiers is also very extraordinary! What he couldn't stand the most was that the other party's flag turned out to be the blue sky and white sun flag, which means that the other party is a Chinese army! Division Commander Dai Anlan reasonably arranged the troops according to the terrain of Tonggu and made full preparations, especially because the Pew Bridge was bombed, and the Japanese army transported Lashio's heavy artillery within a few hours of delay, which was even more powerful! Let the commander of the 55th Division, Takeuchi, dare not despise it anymore!

Takeuchi, who had suffered a suffocating loss, mobilized elite forces, and with the support of heavy artillery and a large number of mortars, launched a tidal attack on the Chinese defenders of Tonggu. The soldiers of the 200th Division occupied the positions they set up and fought desperately, and the soldiers of both sides fought fiercely outside the ancient city! The Japanese planes began to drop bombs, the huge * blew up the position, the Chinese soldiers crawled out of the dirt and continued to shoot, and the Japanese soldiers were just as ferocious, stepping on the corpses of their comrades to attack again and again! After two days of fierce fighting, Takeuchi did not advance a single step, but instead lost many soldiers and officers. Annoyed, Takeuchi brought his guard troops to the front line to boost morale and try to take Tonggu in one go, but he found that the opponent's will to fight far exceeded his expectations! A Chinese soldier rushed into the Japanese offensive formation, was stabbed by the bayonets of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, but did not dodge, strafed * horizontally, pulled the * on his body, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers died with this Chinese soldier! There was even a young Chinese officer, with his own platoon, who stopped the attack of a Japanese squadron at the cost of the annihilation of the entire platoon. Looking at all this, Takeuchi's feeling is that he really kicked the iron plate this time!

Just when the 200th Division of Tonggu was fighting hard, Du Yuming was arguing with the British! The reason was that the Anglo-Burmese army, which was in charge of the flank of Tonggu, retreated without authorization, exposing the flank of the 200th Division to the Japanese attack. For the 200th Division, Du Yuming was very nervous, and went to the British army headquarters to scold the British army for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and delaying the military plane! But the British rightly ignored the lives of soldiers of the British Empire on the grounds that they were the most precious! Du Yuming was very annoyed by such a statement, could it be that the British were killed, and the Chinese soldiers were not? In the end, Du Yuming, who was helpless, threatened the British army that if the British and Burmese troops were unwilling to return to Tonggu to serve as flank cover, they would order the 200th Division to retreat! The British said angrily that that would allow the Japanese army to drive straight in, and there were still many supplies and British troops in northern Burma that had not been evacuated, and Du Yuming was sabotaging the agreement between China and Britain on entering Burma! Du Yuming was unmoved, and said that the lives of Chinese soldiers are the most precious! After discussion, the British decided to continue to order the Anglo-Burmese army to serve as the flank security of Tonggu. Dai Anlan, the commander of the division in the same ancient city, is still fighting with Takeuchi, the artillery and soldiers on both sides are still violently colliding, although the Japanese army is strong, a multi-division regiment is attacking in turns, but the 200th Division relies on its own excellent equipment, sufficient ammunition, and the Japanese army will not give an inch! Neither Dai Anlan nor Takeuchi in Tonggu thought that the fierce battle between the two parties in Tonggu would become a battle for power between China and Britain!

It turned out that before the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma, there had been negotiations, and the command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was under the unified command of Hu Dun, the commander-in-chief of the British-Burmese Army, but the British Army's various actions and continuous rout made the British lose face, and the Chinese side proposed that a Chinese general be in command. The arrogant British said that they would not agree to accept the command of a Chinese, and after a stalemate between the two sides, the Americans made a suggestion, that is, to use the defense of Tonggu as the measure of who would be the commander! According to the British, it was impossible for the Chinese army to retreat after the British army was defending Prome, which meant that the British meant to relinquish command as long as the Chinese army in Tonggu could hold out for more than ten days! For such a competitive decision, Du Yuming and Luo Zhuoying, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, agreed! There is only one reason for agreeing with this, and that is Du Yuming's confidence in the 200th Division! But it backfired, and just when China and Britain were competing, the Americans appeared! The US ambassador to China, citing the lack of command experience in overseas operations among Chinese soldiers, demanded that Stilwell, commander of the Flying Tigers, the US air force for China, be used as the supreme commander. The British agreed to such a proposal, and the Chinese side also agreed to the Americans' approach because they felt the arrogance of the British, and even if they grabbed the command, they could not effectively command the British army! So in this situation, General Stilwell came to Burma to prepare to be the commander-in-chief!

The British army in Prome was also desperately resisting the attack of the Japanese 56th Division, which was also a strong force, launched a fierce attack on the British army, and the Japanese soldiers rushed forward with bayonets and howls, and the fierce fire and aviation* beat the British to the ground! The "great" British army, having held out for five days in Tonggu, began to retreat! After the rout began, the British commander was killed, and thousands of British troops were killed and punished with hard labor! However, the 200th Division in Tonggu held out for 12 days, and at the cost of more than 2,000 casualties and more than 1,700 wounded, it severely damaged the 55th Division of the Japanese Army, and almost destroyed the 55th Division of the Japanese Army! The casualties were as high as more than five thousand people, and even the chief of staff of the commander of the Takeuchi division was killed! The reason why Tonggu wanted to give up was because of the loss of Prome, the loss of the cover of the two wings, and if he didn't leave, he was very likely to be surrounded. Under the command of General Dai Anlan, the 200th Division withdrew very successfully, and not even a single wounded was left behind.

The performance of the Chinese soldiers in Tonggu surprised everyone, including the British, and under the adjustment of the Americans, the British gave up the command of unified command, but still did not agree to obey the command of General Luo Zhuoying of China, and expressed their willingness to accept the command of General Stilwell! General Stilwell eventually became the commander, and General Lo Cheuk-ying became the deputy commander. After Stilwell took office, the Chinese and British armies decided to counterattack to contain the Japanese offensive and prepare for the Battle of Pinnaman. However, the British had a very set of beliefs that Burma was always going to be lost, and it was better to preserve its strength and enter India than to fight hard in Burma, so the Anglo-Burmese army continued to rout in the direction it was responsible for, while the Chinese army kept moving south. When Stilwell and Lo Zhuoying realized that something was wrong, the Japanese army had broken through all the defensive positions of the Anglo-Burmese army and returned to the back of the Chinese expeditionary force. In the face of this situation, the expeditionary force had to break through in four ways, Du Yuming didn't even have the strength to scold his mother, and ordered the whole army of the Fifth Army to retreat and return to the northwest through the Savage Mountain.