That night, after leaving Mawlamyine, the convoy headed northwest along the seaside road, and after more than 100 kilometers, Li Junhao ordered to camp in a wooded area by the roadside.

Subsequently, after the armored command vehicle erected a high-power antenna, Li Junhao personally sent a telegram to the United States through the North African telegraph station, sending today's observations and impressions, and proposing to change the previous plan, and he and his attaché will inspect the battlefield in Burma along the land route.

Second, he reported to China the phenomenon of the British army's hijacking, detention, and waste of US military aid to China, and demanded that China pay attention to it, strengthen the supervision of aid to China, and warn the British.

At the same time, he strongly demanded that the United States increase pressure on Britain to force it to let the Chinese expeditionary force enter Burma as soon as possible, because the British army could not withstand the Japanese attack!

After receiving his telegram, the White House Council of Advisers and the Joint Chiefs of Staff quickly sent a joint telegram back, agreeing to his request to change the plan and arrangement, and at the same time would consider his request and exert pressure on the British side.

The first paragraph of the cable did not mention the issue of aid to China, but at the end, it gave him a statement of "monitoring and disposing of the situation of US military aid to China in Burma", and this temporary right is very important to him! ——

On the 28th, Li Junhao arrived in Yangon with his subordinates, but fortunately, at this time, the British army here had not yet fled!

As soon as he entered the city, the British troops guarding the city reported to their superiors, and the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Burmese army, Lieutenant General Hadro Alexander, sent his own adjutant to meet them, and took them to the headquarters in the center of the city.

Here, what Li Junhao saw was not that the staff officers were busy making battle plans, but that many logistics personnel were busy packing up their things and preparing to evacuate!

When he met the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Burmese army, Lieutenant General Alexander was very polite to him, but he did not talk about the question of strategic defense, and after greeting him personally, he immediately said that the place was no longer safe, and asked him to leave immediately and go to India or China to ensure his safety......

In addition, there is also the topic of continuing to ask for more military assistance from the United States......

In the evening, Alexander's adjutant arranged for them to stay in a hotel run by the British, and on behalf of the commander-in-chief, invited him to a banquet at a western restaurant in the center of Yangon, but he refused, and was very disappointed in the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Burmese army.

The next day, when he offered to inspect the defenses in Rangoon, the senior British officers who accompanied him prevaricated under various pretexts, which made him understand that the British army really could not count on it.

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On 31 January, the battle report came that the Japanese had completely occupied Mawlamyine and most of Kayin State, and that their forces were moving west to Mon State and beginning to threaten Bago Province and its southwestern Yangon Province.

From a military point of view, I am afraid that even the Japanese army itself did not expect that it would be so smooth - who would have thought that the "powerful" British army would retreat without a fight?

Li Junhao proposed to participate in the military meeting of the British army, but was directly refused! At this time, he was no longer angry, because he knew that these British guys were going to run away again! That night, he made a decision to give him sanctions!

In the following days, the only good news he received was that because the United States exerted pressure on Britain, on February 1, at the request of the British side, Du Yuming, deputy commander of the 1st Route Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, led more than 100,000 men from 10 divisions of the 5th, 6th, and 66th armies to enter Burma to aid Britain. This is half a month earlier than in the original history!

After the initial "intimacy" period, the British army obviously cooled down towards Li Junhao's side, and he was not surprised by this, after all, no one would like to have a prison army by his side!

So, he no longer paid attention to the British army, but began to tour the city of Yangon with his own people, specially arranged for a few people to shoot with cameras and cameras, and wrote down a lot of key things, which can be regarded as providing a witness for his expedition, but the discovery in the process made him more and more angry!

The British troops stationed in Rangoon did not make any defensive preparations at all, but were busy transporting a large number of colonial officials and high-ranking British military belongings to the north by rail and road, and even loaded and transported heavy wooden furniture, animal specimens, stone sculptures, etc., occupying all the railway capacity, so that the people who wanted to evacuate had no cars to ride.

At the same time, compared with Mawlamyine, the problem of military aid materials here is more serious, and in the three main military bases in Yangon, a large number of weapons and equipment and materials originally used to aid China are piled up - the British army itself is unwilling to change the standard equipment, but they hold on to these things! Now they're evacuating, but they don't have enough capacity to get these things away!

After Li Junhao inspected the area, he gritted his teeth and thought: The British are going to leave these things to the Japanese! But I came, no way!

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In the following time, Li Junhao asked Xiaoyu and Xiaohu and others to cover himself, and went out for five nights in a row, each time for three hours, and ransacked the three major military bases and more than a dozen munitions warehouses in Yangon......

He estimated that the large quantities of materials he had collected, such as guns and ammunition, motorcycles, trucks, jeeps, armored vehicles, tanks, artillery, clothing, canned food, tents, medical equipment, medicines, construction machinery, steel bars, cement, and barbed wire, would be enough to ensure the training, living, combat, and defense of nearly 300,000 people.

These are all military aid materials, which are the blood to support China's anti-Japanese war, in the history of his previous life, the British, who only cared about escape, did not even destroy the materials in Yangon when they evacuated, but left most of them to the Japanese army!

Now, everything is different, Li Junhao has put all these away, he is thinking, how can he use these materials to support the Chinese Expeditionary Force? And not to arouse suspicion! This needs to be thought through.

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Because of the theft of a large number of materials, the British troops in Yangon City became more and more panicked, and for several days, the whole city was under martial law, and the British and Burmese troops kept searching in the city, but they could not find any traces of the stolen materials.

The commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Burmese army, Lieutenant General Hadro Alexander, was very nervous, and he wondered if it was a large number of Japanese spies who had infiltrated the city of Rangoon, but even so, how could they have transported so many supplies under the noses of the British? If the Japanese army could really do this, it would be terrible!

Because of this fear, Lieutenant General Alexander became more determined to evacuate, and while ordering the vigilance troops in the city to continue martial law, he ordered all troops to prepare for evacuation immediately.

This time it was not bad, Alexander still remembered that there was an American envoy in the city, and sent someone to inform him, saying that there was danger in the city and asking him to evacuate immediately.

(End of chapter)