The two wings of the 16th Division fled back to Lashio City in a broken way, and the armored brigade would not attack Lashio City again, as long as they routed the pursuing Japanese army, they would complete the task assigned by Wang Haitao. After a few kilometers of pursuit, the pursuit was stopped and the troops were collected and returned to the camp. Although Xiang Wenbin still felt that he hadn't killed enough, the two regiments of the armored brigade and the guard brigade had withdrawn their troops, and he could only take his subordinates back to the camp together.

After escaping to the castle, Kawaguchi Naono Daisa finally settled down, looked at the remnants of the defeated soldiers around him, and sighed. After giving the order to gather the soldiers and stay on standby, Kawaguchi Naono Osa returned to the castle to see the commander of the Morioka Hayabusa Division. The remnants of the two wings did not return to Lashio until dawn, including the commander of the Ninth Wing, Takeyoshi Imanaka.

Two wings of the 16th Division and a chariot squadron went out of the city to pursue, not only failed to destroy part of the Chinese army, but lost more than 2,000 people, and a chariot squadron was completely annihilated.

After Wang Haitao sent an armored brigade to defeat the Japanese pursuers heartily, he gathered several troops together and calmly began to retreat to the country, and after three days of marching, he finally returned to the Sino-Burmese border, crossed the Nu River from the bridge on the Nu River, and was about to reach Ruili. As soon as the Nu River was crossed, a signal corpsman came to report that the 277th Brigade of the 90th Division, the 210th Division, and the 93rd Division had assembled in Ruili, and General Song Xilian, commander of the 11th Group Army, was also waiting for him in Ruili.

General Song Xilian and Wang Haitao are both generals of the national army, but Song Xilian is a close confidant of General Chen Cheng, and he is deeply trusted by Lao Jiang. Although Wang Haitao is also Chen Cheng's subordinate, and the 90th Army is also a member of the civil engineering department, when it comes to intimacy, Wang Haitao cannot be compared with Song Xilian. During the defense of Nanjing, Wang Haitao and Song Xilian had dealings, because they were both members of the civil engineering department, and Wang Haitao also took care of Song Xilian and the 36th Division under him, so Song Xilian still had a good impression of Wang Haitao.

After the Battle of Nanjing in history, several of Lao Jiang's German armament divisions, including the teaching corps, were lost, and the main German armament division also existed in name only. And because of the existence of Wang Haitao, several German mechanics not only preserved their strength, but also because of Wang Haitao's care strength, and later because of Wang Haitao's friendly relations with the German upper echelons, before the fall of Guangzhou, the Nationalist Government purchased a lot of arms from Germany to enrich several troops.

In the later stage of the Xuzhou Campaign, the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, which taught the corps to fight with the strength of one army, lost its armor and was embarrassed. With these reasons, General Song Xilian personally came to Ruili to greet Wang Haitao. General Wang Haitao was waiting for news from General Song Xilian in Ruili, and he didn't trust him, handed over the troops to Wu Jianzhou, and rushed to Ruili City with his guards.

As soon as Wang Haitao and his entourage arrived at the gate of Ruili City, they saw a bunch of people waiting there at the gate from a distance. Wang Haitao's car stopped dozens of meters away from the crowd. Wang Haitao got out of the car and saw that the stars were shining at the gate of the city, led by a general of the national army accompanied by Su Zuxin, chief of staff of the 90th Army, who was General Song Xilian, the former commander of the 78th Army and the current commander of the 11th Group Army.

Wang Haitao walked a few steps quickly and came to scrape in front of Song Xilian, General Song Xilian took the lead in saluting and said: "General Wang has returned from the expedition, and he has worked hard all the way. Wang Haitao hurriedly returned a military salute, and replied while stretching out his hand: "It's all about fighting against Little Japan, not to mention hard work." Isn't General Song fighting with Little Japan at home?"

Song Xilian stretched out his hand and shook Wang Haitao together and said: "We don't have such a good record as General Wang in China, we completely annihilated two divisions and a heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army at one time, plus two divisions and regiments were disabled, and they were prestigious, so that the Yankees who are above the top also look at our army with admiration, General Wang is really a model for our army!"

Before coming to General Xilian's compliment, Wang Haitao was naturally modest, and then Song Xilian introduced Wang Haitao to several other generals who came to greet him, including Gan Lichu, commander of the Sixth Army, Zhong Bin, commander of the 71st Army, Li Zhipeng, commander of the 30th Division, etc., Wang Haitao and they saluted one by one, and Song Xilian came to the headquarters of the 36th Division by car.

Everyone sat down at the division headquarters, mainly to listen to Wang Haitao talk about the experience of going abroad to fight. And Song Xilian and others are most concerned about the situation of the Japanese army that is now occupying Burma, because if the Japanese army attacks from Burma to the Sino-Burmese border, it will be very important for the defenders to know some of the current situation of the Japanese army.

It was learned that although the 21st Army of the Japanese army in Burma had four divisions and one Taiwan brigade, there were only two divisions left in combat effectiveness, and the total number of horses did not exceed 50,000. Moreover, when they should not be able to launch an attack on the Sino-Burmese border in Yunnan in a short period of time, Song Xilian and others were obviously relieved, especially Li Zhipeng, the commander of the 36th Division.

The 36th Division is located in Ruili City on the border with Myanmar, and Li Zhipeng's pressure is the greatest among several generals. Although the Nu River is in danger, to blow up the two bridges on the Nu River is tantamount to giving up the land south of the Nu River, which is the last step that cannot be forced. Now four regiments of the 36th Division are deployed on the border line, and the 88th Division will also arrive at Ruili City to defend the border line with the 36th Division.

Once the Japanese army launched an attack on the Sino-Burmese border, Ruili City bore the brunt, and when the 88th had not yet arrived, there was only one division of the 36th Division, and Li Zhipeng was very worried that he would not be able to withstand the fierce attack of the Japanese army.

Now I hear Wang Haitao say that the Japanese army has suffered heavy losses in a row, the fourth heavy artillery brigade has been completely wiped out, and the artillery of other divisions and regiments has also lost about the same, and it is unlikely that it will immediately launch an attack on the Sino-Burmese border. Li Zhipeng knew very well that if he waited a few more days, as long as the 88th Division arrived in Ruili and garrisoned Ruili City with the strength of two German armor divisions, then he would have a lot of certainty in guarding the Sino-Burmese border.

A room of people talked for a long time, watching the sky darken, Song Xilian is the master in Ruili, of course, he wants to do his best to be a landlord. After his subordinates reported that the banquet had been prepared, they warmly invited Wang Haitao and several chief officers of the 90th Army to the banquet. Wang Haitao was inconvenient to refuse, and went to the banquet with Su Zuxin, Tang Renxin, Li Yuanhong and other chief officials.

After everyone sat down in a large hotel in Ruili City, General Song Xilian, as the host, first said some words on the scene, everyone carried the sedan chair, Song Xilian gave Wang Haitao and others face, Wang Haitao naturally knew how to respond, and everyone laughed at a few words of the scene, and the atmosphere on the wine table was very good.

Song Xilian, the supreme commander of Ruili City, came to the hotel, and the banquet was hosted by the famous General Wang Haitao, the commander of the 90th Army. After the dish was served, even Wang Haitao thought it was very good. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Song Xilian picked up the wine glass.

Song Xilian said to Wang Haitao: "Commander Wang, during the defense of Nanjing, you were my commander, thanks to Commander Wang's care for my 36th Division, I Song Xilian inherited Commander Wang's affection, and has not been able to thank Commander Wang. ”

Wang Haitao smiled and replied: "General Song is polite, I just did what I had to do back then, after all, we are all a family, and they are all to fight against Little Japan, General Song doesn't have to be like this." Let's dry this glass together!" he said, raising his glass and drinking it all. Song Xilian listened to Wang Haitao's words, praised the word "good!" loudly, and drank it all with a smile on his face.

After drinking a few more glasses of wine, Song Xilian said to Wang Haitao: "Commander Wang is a bold person, I have heard a lot about Commander Wang's generous gifts to his colleagues, today Song has a cheeky thing and wants to ask General Wang for help, I wonder if General Wang can give Song someone a little thin noodles?"

Wang Haitao replied with a smile again: "General Song doesn't have to be polite, if there is anything but it doesn't matter, as long as I can help, I will definitely not refuse." When Wang Haitao said this, Song Xilian's face smiled even more. He said: "Since Commander Wang said so, Song asked for it bluntly.

Commander Wang also knew that although my 11th Army had several German armament divisions and its weapons and equipment were quite good in the national army, compared with Little Japan, the gap in heavy weapons was not small, especially in artillery, and it could not be compared with Little Japan. At present, our 11th Army has only one heavy artillery regiment and only a few dozen artillery pieces, and it is really difficult to block the Japanese attack.

I know that Commander Wang's 90th Army has a lot of artillery, and now that the 90th Army is about to return to the garrison to recuperate, I wonder if Commander Wang can transfer some artillery to my 11th Group Army, and Song should be grateful. After speaking, Song Xilian looked at Wang Haitao expectantly. Wang Haitao originally expected that Song Xilian was asking for help from him for heavy weapons, but now he heard that it was not bad.

For Wang Haitao, artillery, especially 75 mm caliber imitation German-made field guns, can be produced in his own arsenal, and there is no problem in transferring some of them to Song Xilian, and these artillery pieces are also placed in Song Xilian to deal with small Japan, since they are all for dealing with small Japan, it is no problem for anyone to use them.

With mental preparation, Wang Haitao did not hesitate, and replied on the spot: "What General Song asks, Haitao should do his best." In this way, each regiment of the 90th Army had a field artillery battalion, equipped with 18 75-mm imitation German-made field guns and 18 120-mm heavy mortars. I took out the artillery of the three field artillery battalions and presented them to General Song, what do you think, General Song?"