At the Sittwe airfield in Burma, Chu Ting Chang led his men back in a hurry, he left half of his company's tanks and hundreds of Kachin soldiers there, and the Japanese achieved their goal with a charge of the last few hundred men, and now they have threatened the last way for the British to evacuate.

Commander Chu then received an order from Du Yuming, asking him to slow down the enemy's movement at all costs and wait for the main force of the 200th Division to arrive; Du Yuming is such a distressed person with equipment, and it is obvious that he has encountered a very bad situation to be able to give such an order; At present, Dai Anlan's main force is still more than 100 kilometers away from here, and there is about a day's motorized marching mileage, and once it is in place, there is every chance to beat the enemy back into the mountains. But in the past few hours, Commander Du has had a huge deviation in his grasp of the overall situation, and this deviation does not come from the Japanese army, which is already at the end of the crossbow, but from the British army, which is an ally. As Asano, who was far away in Rangoon and never dared to point out the world without looking at a map, this amphibious assault, regardless of its tactical success or failure, was bound to be the last straw that broke the nerves of the British.

The Japanese army is a whole, even if the divisions and regiments are dissatisfied with each other, and the navy and army have a long grudge with each other, their ultimate goal is the same, which is why the Japanese naval aircraft can break through and hit tanks for the army; However, China, Britain and the United States have different goals, and now this alliance of shaving heads and picking hot heads is about to collapse. Asano is certainly just a madman who talks about the world in half a history book, but his judgment on the general trend is accurate.

The British troops at the airfield began to pack up their things, began to dismantle the tents of the field hospitals, and moved some of the Burmese Indian troops forward, very similar to the actions they had before the previous sudden retreats, and also moved these hospitals and command units first, and they also had some internal distinction between the inferior and the colonial troops, usually leaving the colonial troops behind; Of course, on the whole, the British army will quietly disappear while the Allies are still supporting. Chief Chu asked Brooke to communicate with the British, but Lieutenant Colonel Gale avoided him. All signs are already obvious, the British do not intend to hand over their fate to the last bow of the Chinese expeditionary force.

Poor Du Yuming was embattled, still trying to repair the defensive line and save the whole Burma, but his enemies and allies were more sophisticated and gloomy, they judged the situation, felt each other's pulse, and formed a tacit understanding, the Japanese army did not cut off the Qindun River road for a long time, and when the British convoy passed quickly, the only infantry gun on the other side of the river would stop firing.

Mountbatten flew to India and gave Alexander a showdown before leaving: Britain had to shrink its forces, needed more troops to North Africa and the Middle East, and monitored Germany, Italy and Turkey, so the task of this strategic retreat was necessary, even if there was no Japanese attack, he hoped that Alexander would complete this mission, and as a reward, he promised Alexander that he would soon be promoted, and then leave desperate Asia for a battlefield of his choice. In addition, Mountbatten predicted the situation of the war, believing that the world would usher in a very dark period, but the British Empire would continue to win the final victory. When the Japanese were defeated, the British Empire would make a comeback and restore order in Asia.

Alexander agreed with the Lord's judgment that the Japanese would ultimately fail, but he was pessimistic about the Lord's judgment that the British would be able to resume colonial rule in Asia after the war. As a soldier, his intuition told him that from the moment the 130,000 British troops in Singapore surrendered with the white flag, the British lost the opportunity to come back, because they lost the awe of the local people, and to some extent, the Japanese enlightened the ignorant people of Southeast Asia and let them know that the white lord could actually be defeated. Of course, he didn't say what he thought, and it was comforting to be able to leave this hellish place, and it was hard for him to imagine how he could continue to stay in Asia and face the Allies after such a treacherous act. He eventually recommended General Slim to the Lord.

On the night of April 25, the British troops began to retreat from the half of the defensive line under their control with 30 minutes of advance notice to the Allies, which directly caused the Japanese troops who were stuck in Ringanqiang to directly cross the British defense line and move closer to the 33rd Division, which was more than half annihilated. At this moment, the remnants of the newly exhausted 38th Division and the 33rd Division were in the final confrontation, because of the sudden advance of the Japanese troops on the outer line, the balance of victory and defeat quickly tilted in favor of the enemy.

In late April 1942, as Mountbatten predicted, the world could not come out of the darkness, except for Doolittle's bombing of Tokyo, Zhukov's several outposts on the banks of the Volga River, and several flexible counterattacks by Chu Tingchang, which could bring a little comfort to the Allies, the whole history still slipped into darkness, and of course the lieutenant general was indispensable to the Japanese traverser.

Lin Xiuxuan was the first to monitor the movements of the British army, and he warned Chu Tingchang in advance, asking him not to carry out Du Yuming's order, immediately evacuate the current position, and let the Japanese army come from the side to bite the British army, so that they could not easily get out, but the tacit understanding between the British army and the Japanese army was further confirmed on the battlefield, and the British army retreating from the Ringanqiang front line did not encounter the fierce pursuit of the Japanese army, and Iida Shojiro did not have enough troops to launch an attack in every direction, and he asked to focus on attacking the Chinese army. Like Asano's poisonous plan to attack India, forcing China to submit is the first priority.

On the eastern battlefield, the 56th Division launched a fierce offensive, and several miscellaneous armies mobilized by the expeditionary force in the vicinity could not resist the rapid advance of this force, and on the 26th, the unit divided its troops to attack Jingdong, and the main force attacked Lashio. From the map, the vanguard of the unit has circled to the back of Mandalay and completed the flank of the Chinese army.

In the early morning of the 26th, the situation was chaotic, and traitor spies wearing Chinese army uniforms infiltrated the city of Lashio, set fire to the military supplies piled up there, attacked a regimental headquarters of the 93rd Division, and killed the regiment commander. All kinds of rumors spread rapidly in the city, about tens of thousands of Japanese troops have surrounded Lashio from three directions, Luo Zhuoying and Du Yu have fled back to China with fine soft tomorrow morning, and the national army has set a time to blow up the Huitong Bridge in the afternoon, cutting off the retreat of the troops after the break.

At this time, almost all of Lin Xiuxuan's special group was in western Burma, and the main force of the expeditionary force was in a stalemate with five Japanese divisions on the long defensive line, and they could not advance or retreat. The Japanese army completed the offensive to cut off the retreat of the Chinese army before the Tianchang Festival, and it seemed that it was about to succeed as if it were history.

A mixed force of jeeps and cavalry galloped from the road to the west, and the soldiers in the jeeps kept shooting into the sky and rushed through the chaotic street market, ignoring the routs and refugees who could not dodge.

The motorcade galloped to the heights northeast of Lashio, and finally got ahead of the fleeing men on foot, when a tall officer jumped out of the jeep, walking with a slight limp but acting unequivocally.

"Heavy take the heights." He drew his pistol and fired a shot into the sky. But it couldn't deter the rout of the two miscellaneous divisions of 29 and 93 on the road below.

"Shoot." As soon as he gave the order, the two machine gunners who had already occupied the high ground fired several bursts. Bullets grazed the heads of the refugees and the routs and flew over the mounds on either side, stirring up a cloud of dust. The rout was frightened and largely stopped. But there are still those who run forward with their heads covered.

The lame general rushed into the crowd and fired several shots at the deserters, hitting three on the spot, two of whom fell to the ground and the other was still writhing, and he caught up and fired two more shots, so that the thunderbolt could stop the crowd that was overwhelming.

"I am Zhang Lingfu of the 58th Division, I am ordered to defend this place, whoever dares to take a step forward will be shot on the spot."

He held a gun to block the crowd, and he had the momentum of resisting thousands of troops and horses with one person, and the soldiers behind this kung fu quickly completed the blockade. Three machine guns formed a crossfire point, monitoring the frightened crowd.

"Boss, we are refugees, not deserters." An elderly man squeezed out of the crowd.

"I'm sorry for the old man, it's not accommodating in these extraordinary times, and I, Zhang, have set a rule that only women and children under 3 feet are allowed to pass, and men are not allowed to go over regardless of their age or young."

As he spoke, he walked towards the crowd, and the rout retreated consciously, making way for him, and he walked straight to a lieutenant who had lost his weapon and was about to explain, when Zhang Lingfu raised his hand and shot the man's head, the bullet wounded a soldier in the back.

"There are only a few hundred Japanese troops outside the city, and you have three or four thousand people here who have broken up like this. Adjutants, all those who took the lead in escaping above the rank of second lieutenant were tied up, and military justice was engaged. ”

Of course, everything is just a false threat, Zhang's vanguard is only a company, and the troops behind have not yet arrived, so he can't tie up so many deserters, but he has seen too much, at this time, don't kill a few Liwei, let this group of deserters know that they are more ruthless than the Japanese, and the situation is completely out of control in a blink of an eye.

Sure enough, the deserters were frightened and turned back to the city.

"Come on," Zhang Lingfu beckoned, calling the adjutant to him, "Go and reorganize these defeated soldiers and let them go to the front." At this time, the Japanese did not have time to enter the outer line of defense. ”

"Shizao, most of these defeated soldiers have even lost their guns?"

"Go to the outskirts of the city and open the American warehouses and give them the weapons."

"But the arsenal can't be touched by the two commanders of Luo Du, and it must be decided by Chongqing."

"When will you come, you are still stuck with these, I will take responsibility, and if you don't open it again, it will be cheaper for the Japanese."

As he spoke, two Japanese planes flew over from the beginning and headed straight for the Huitong Bridge.

"When our troops arrive, disassemble and deploy, distribute them to supervise the battle behind these cowards, monitor a battalion with a company, dare to take half a step back, and kill them, China is not afraid of another death, but it is afraid that the people's hearts will continue to fall, and you don't want the kindness of women, how to fight the enemy if you are not strict in governing the army."

"What about refugees?"

"Let them go behind the positions everywhere, dig up reserve fortifications, and send people to keep an eye on them."

Eight or nine hundred people of the Hirai Wing ran wildly for days, and at this moment they had already arrived outside the city, and they saw the fire in the city from a distance, and knew that the special team of the southern agency had succeeded. It seems that the task can be completed ahead of schedule.

These days, their offensive is simply like no one's land, from Le Ke all the way to kill, every time they encounter the Chinese army, it is a burst of charge and defeat, obviously the recent high command of the enemy situation report is based on the enemy's 5th Army as an example, the overall strength of the expeditionary force, the assessment of the overall strength of the expeditionary force, a lot of inflated. In essence, the expeditionary force is also gold and jade, and the chaff is included, and the miscellaneous cards of all walks are completely inferior and vulnerable.

Nakasa did not think carefully about the strategy, and simply ordered two squadrons, one left and one right, to attack head-on, which was the most useful tactic against the Chinese miscellaneous army. The Chinese army was often able to withstand a frontal attack, but they were always afraid of a friendly and neighborly retreat, so as soon as the two flanks attacked, they rushed to retreat, a trick that was tried and tested on the Chinese battlefield repeatedly, and only in a few elite troops did not shine.