It doesn't matter when Rangoon fell, but whether Japanese sappers were able to break through the river barrier in the Irrawaddy Delta, build bridges, and guide their infantry to escape before they surrounded it.

Due to the lack of drone support, Lin Xiuxuan is not clear about the current progress of the Japanese army on the river, in short, with his experience, the efficiency of the Japanese army's military operations, it is best to assume the worst-case scenario, any idea of getting by is looking for bad luck.

In fact, the British army had already begun to retreat at an accelerated pace, and the Independence Army was supposed to rapidly expand its power in Rangoon almost in the same way that the British walked on the front foot and entered on the back foot. This put the Chinese army, which was left behind, in a difficult position.

The independent soldiers in the streets had guns in their hands, and even the general public flocked to the arsenals opened by the North Indians in the hope of getting their weapons.

Fortunately, in the darkness of the night, the truck convoy still had a chance to mix in with the rabble-controlled areas in a calm manner.

A machine gun was set up on top of each truck, but Lin Xiuxuan asked the soldiers behind the car to sit and not stand up. He took the "flag" captured from the Indian rebels, who had scribbled yellow paint on white sheets and planted them on the front of the car. This is the banner agreed within the rebels, and like the armband, the leaders of the Independence Army should know about it at the middle level and above.

He himself sat in the passenger seat of the first truck and directed the action. The truck was driven by a military commander who had escorted him before, and if Chen Zhiping hadn't left these four, he wouldn't have even been able to get together 12 drivers who could drive.

"You can't go ahead, turn left and bypass the neighboring street."

Lin gave the order to the driver, and the car behind followed closely behind the operation. Of course, he also got the line through the front pilot car with night vision devices. However, even with night vision devices, you can only see a short distance in front of you, and you can't plan your course of action as a whole, especially in a chaotic situation.

"Don't stop at the intersection, turn off the headlights. Don't worry if you shoot a gun. After giving the command, he opened the car door, leaned out half-lean, and signaled the car behind him with a flashlight. Before he set off, he agreed on two signals in 1 minute, one was not allowed to fire, and the other was to fire, mainly because he was afraid that the machine gunners would destroy the plan. Now all he was signaling was not to shoot. Xu Chong told him that there seemed to be infighting among the nearby independence forces and that they needed to be dealt with carefully.

Sure enough, when the convoy passed, there were sporadic gunshots on the street, and the gunfire was chaotic, and it could be roughly heard that the enemy's internal strife was not aimed at this side.

"There's a roadblock 150 meters ahead, leave it alone, increase the throttle and rush over."

The commander who was driving the car almost opened his mouth wide, he didn't know how the fake captain next to him could know the enemy situation in front of him a minute or two in advance every time.

He stepped on the gas pedal and accelerated. When I saw the intersection ahead, someone tried to push a bus to the intersection to block the way, but it was still only half of the way.

"Turn on the headlights and dazzle them, honk the horn to get them roll."

The driver did as he said, turned on the headlights, and honked the horn, and the Independence Army in front of him stood stunned, bewildered by the glare lights. They acted according to the detailed plan of the Southern Agency, blocking the junction in order to cause trouble for the evacuation of the British rearguard, but they had heard before the incident that there were rebellious Indians in the port area on their side, and the news was confusing. Lin Xiuxuan rushed over confidently, and almost didn't scold his mother, but this group of people didn't dare to do anything.

There was a dense burst of gunfire and fire ahead, and it was an Australian unit that was lagging behind that was blocked, and Lin Xiuxuan asked to quietly turn around and avoid the firefight. The Australian company could have left quietly, but when they saw the Independence Army with a red cloth on their head killed, they panicked and shot and killed, but they were blocked, and I am afraid that most of them will not be able to escape.

The gunfire drew half of the city's independent army closer to this side, but the Chinese army passed quickly across the street, and the Asian faces of the Chinese were easier to fool than the whites. When they left the city, the gunfire in the rear had almost stopped, and it was estimated that this Australia had even been reimbursed.

The car drove to the outside of the city, pulled down the flag of the Indian rebels in front of the car and threw it away, and turned to the entrance of the British army headquarters in the north of the city, black smoke billowed from the headquarters, the British army headquarters had evacuated 2 hours earlier, leaving only some rear guard troops, still carrying the last things and burning documents, Chen Zhiping of course did not appear in this agreed place, he should have sensed that the situation was not good, and left his subordinates and ran away in advance.

The convoy stopped, and Lin Xiuxuan led several officers to get out of the car to inquire about the situation, and at the same time asked the British for some gasoline, and there were some war-ready warehouses with tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline waiting to be destroyed.

After the break, the Australian deputy battalion commander was arranging to blow up the warehouse, and he was a little surprised to see the Chinese captain protruding from the city, and he was also willing to share the latest enemy situation.

Judging from the latest updated map, the Japanese army had broken through the Irrawaddy River 2 hours ago, and one or two brigades had crossed the river and completed a thin blockade line, but it was broken through by General Alexander's tank troops with a charge, and a one-kilometer-wide passage was currently maintained by the Australian brigade, which had the most stable combat effectiveness in the British army, and the Japanese tried to block it with artillery fire, and the follow-up troops were coming, and it was expected that at dawn, enemy aircraft would join the blockade operation.

Lin Xiuxuan knew that he should rush over first, but the vehicle needed to be refueled, so he could only wait. The British had a premonition that the Indians were unreliable, so they only provided a limited amount of petrol, so most of the cars had run out of fuel when they drove here. It is not realistic to hike through large areas of hostile wilderness to Mandalay.

He ran to the high ground to watch the exchange of fire ahead, and could see locust-like bullets flying and continuous explosions several kilometers away, which was probably the most heroic battle fought by the British since the beginning of the war, and the news from the Philippines and Singapore began to make them afraid, because the Japanese had a habit of abusing prisoners of war, especially for their personal insults, it seemed that the British men had finally mustered up the courage to fight.

The convoy was refueled and finally able to continue the operation, he was ready to disappear from the 300 soldiers after breaking out of the encirclement, so as to prevent the military commanders from arresting him first, the consensus just reached was only that he commanded the team to leave Yangon, and it was not clear how it would be in the future, although he had a hunch that those tax police troops would be on his side, but he did not want to be forced to kill his own people.

Despite the loss of the drone, Lin Xiuxuan's sense of smell of the Japanese army's movements was still very sharp, and he felt that it was too early to judge that the situation had stabilized at this time. Although with his current motorized march, it is not a problem to get rid of the Japanese army, but it is difficult to say that he has already left the encirclement.

As he expected, the third lieutenant general of Sakurai Province still held the initiative. The Indian army's insurgency gave the 33rd Division a time advantage of at least four hours, an advantage that did not exist in the previous history. There is no doubt that Asano's early arrival in Burma played a positive role in this process, and in the original history, Bowes would have remained in Germany with nothing until one year later.

Sakurai is a reserved and confident commander, not as boastful and ostentatious as Mutaguchi, but his inner goal is clear and determined, and his goal is not only to seize all the supplies, but also to prevent Alexander from escaping again.

Although the British's boasting of Dunkirk's escape as a victory was incomprehensible to the Japanese, who saw the retreat as a humiliation, the lieutenant general himself studied Alexander's techniques for shedding the golden cicada in France. For example, he kept the foreign troops in the rear guard or on the flanks; At the same time, at the last moment, heavy weapons will not hesitate to be thrown away. Therefore, he devised a plan to let his 214th and 215th Wings cross the river at the same time, 20 kilometers apart, the 214th Wing's crossing of the river was carried out under the cover of artillery fire, and the momentum was very large, while the 215th Wing's river crossing action in the upper reaches was extremely hidden. Such a complex operation, for the Japanese army, which had logistical difficulties, had indeed reached its limit, and the Allied General Staff judged it impossible. However, thanks to the British engineering equipment seized in the early stage, this plan was quietly implemented.

The first blockade line is currently being fought over and over again, and Sakurai demands that all the precious shells be fired to put pressure on the opponent and force Alexander to lose his heavy weapons in the breakout. And his 215th Wing quietly completed the second line of defense.

Once blocked, the British army, which had lost its heavy weapons, would be encircled by him, thus avoiding street fighting in the city of Rangoon, which was not currently unnoticed by the whole of Burma due to strict radio silence.

Lin Xiuxuan got back on the road, moving along the various abandoned vehicles on both sides of the road, a bulldozer was at the intersection, pushing those vehicles that were damaged by air raids, or simply abandoned vehicles, off the roadbed to ensure that the road was clear, it seems that General Alexander fought so-so, and did have a hand in retreating. Braving artillery fire, their convoy passed through the blockade area before sunrise.

At dawn, the Japanese bombers formed a neat formation and rumbled overhead, but were soon disrupted by Hurricane fighters rushing out of the clouds. Hidden in higher airspace, the P40 with a shark's mouth painted on the nose swoops down and joins the melee. One after another, the thin Japanese bombers fell.

General Alexander probably felt that he had seen the light of day, and that he had braved rounds of bombing and strafing by enemy planes to bring more than 100,000 people back to Britain, and for him, the blockade of the air force at any cost was only a sign of the lack of skill. However, Lin Xiuxuan could not be so optimistic, he asked the driver to ignore the British military police who maintained order on the road, honked his horn all the way, overtook the slow British convoy, and ran to the front as much as possible. He knew that Asano had ruined history, so things would never have been the way they had been - the British fled at the last minute.

By the time the sun rose in the east, the sound of artillery fire had already fallen far behind them, and most of the people on the road began to rejoice that they had finally jumped out of the Japanese encirclement, although some of them had thrown away their guns and even lost their shoes, but this was not a problem. They will travel all the way to Ringanqiang, where they will organize, and then they will travel to India to repair and rearm.

Just in the bright sunlight that jumped out of the horizon, some ugly little dots climbed up the hillside. The cool morning was the best time for the Japanese tanks to use their engines and move quickly, with their backs to the sun, giving them an extra advantage.