Later, the number of engineers increased from more than 700 to more than 3,000.

Although the extra 2,000 people are the remnants of the new 29th Division and the temporary 55th Division, they are all soldiers who want to stay and fight the Japanese army...... This is exactly what the engineering regiment needs.

However, there are only about 2,000 people.

When Zhang Chi and others forcibly marched all the way to Lashio before the Japanese army reached the city, they found that there was no defense organized here as they imagined...... You must know that this is the rear of the expeditionary force, the logistics and supplies of the 100,000 expeditionary force in Burma are here, and it is also the gateway to China, and such an important place can even be said to have sent the 66th Army and the 6th Army to defend in this area, but at this critical moment, there is no decent defense.

Not only did there be no defense, but the town was in chaos...... Everywhere there were routs scrambling for supplies, and everywhere there were cars full of packages, and the roof of the carriage was still tied to the side of the car, and it was obvious that they were all valuable. These routers were not thinking about how to block the Japanese attack, but also wanted to make more gains before the Japanese army reached Lashio and returned home.

These routs who were scrambling for supplies were taken aback when they first saw the engineer regiment driving tanks into the town, and they thought that the Japanese army had entered, so they stopped their work and fled in all directions, but as soon as they found out that they were not Japanese soldiers but their own people, they quickly began their scrambling actions again unscrupulously, and the flow of people even blocked the way of the engineer regiment.

"Tuanza!" The adjutant asked Wang Mazi: "What should I do?" ”

Wang Mazi was silent for a while, and then gritted his teeth and spit out a word: "Fight!" ”

"Hit!"

The tanks at the front of the command immediately opened fire, followed by a flurry of machine guns.

Of course, because they knew that the targets were their own people, the artillery and machine guns were fired where no one was, but the bullets were not long, and some of the routs who were scrambling for supplies were knocked to the ground.

Only then did the routs know that this force was in earnest, so they immediately dispersed.

Zhang Chi also felt very helpless about this...... China will never lack warriors like Meng Lezeng who dare to face the Japanese army head-on, but there are also many clowns and cowards who take advantage of the fire to rob and even make a fortune regardless of the country's danger.

As the troops advanced deeper into Lashio, they saw chaos as the road was littered with discarded supplies and debris, and smoke and fire were rising on both sides of the road...... It was the rout soldiers who were burning the materials that they couldn't take away, and from this point of view, they still had a bit of a conscience, and they couldn't take them away or leave them to little Japan, unlike the British army, which would deliberately throw equipment to the Japanese army.

At this time, Wang Mazi was distressed, there were 100,000 tons of US aid materials piled up in Lashio, and these 100,000 tons of materials were all in short supply in China, and at the same time, the Chinese people had to use their hard-earned money to repay them in the future.

But at this time, Wang Mazi also made a difficulty: Is the engineer regiment fighting the fire or not? Or stop the rout from setting fires, or add another fire to the supplies?

If you are fighting the fire, you must ensure that Lashio will be able to hold it, otherwise the saved materials are likely to fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

If you don't put out the fire, although you can keep the Japanese army from supplies, you can't get it at the same time.

After thinking about it, Wang Mazi shouted: "Radio!" ”

"Yes!" The radio soldier answered and immediately set up the radio station.

But the radio soldier fiddled for a while, then looked at a bullet hole in the radio and hesitated to report: "Tuanza...... Radio station...... It's broken! ”

"How?" Wang Mazi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "Can it be repaired?" ”

"Maybe it can ......," the radio soldier replied, "but not so fast!" ”

Wang Mazi couldn't help but sigh...... The Engineer Regiment was not originally the main combat force, so the radio of the Engineer Regiment was the only one allocated by the superiors, and if it broke at this critical moment, it meant that the Engineer Regiment lost its command.

"Quick!" Wang Mazi thought about it and ordered: "All units search around to see if there are any radio stations left behind when the command unit was withdrawn!" ”

Wang Mazi no longer hopes to find a command unit in Lashio, he knows that there is only one reason why Lashio will be like this, that is, the official has patted his ass and left.

Wang Mazi was right, the staff group that had previously sat in Lashio on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek had retreated under the command of Lin Wei.

The only thing this staff group did in Burma was to sit in the office and give random commands, knowing that the Japanese army was coming and returning home before they could catch fire, and on the way they even ordered to blow up several T26 tanks to block the road in the hope of blocking the Japanese pursuers......

No one has ever used tanks like this, and at this time tanks are still a strategic material in short supply in China, this treasure was not destroyed on the battlefield during combat, but by Lin Wei's whimsical thought that blowing up a few cars would be able to stop the Japanese army...... As long as anyone with a little military knowledge knows, this is just a matter of a few minutes for the Japanese engineers to overthrow them to the side of the road, and what it can stop is the rout of the soldiers who want to return home with a large amount of supplies and dream of making a fortune.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the order to find the radio, this is not a trivial matter, this almost means that the engineer regiment will disappear from the command system of the expeditionary force from now on, and simply put, it will be done alone.

So at that moment, he scattered with his troops to search.

Other troops were looking for places with a lot of routs, but Zhang Chi was the opposite, he took a few soldiers to a place with fewer people.

Zhang Chi knew that at this time, the defeated troops were all grabbing supplies, so most of the places with a lot of people were things that could be transported to China and sold at a good price, but military intelligence was the opposite...... Military intelligence is only valuable in Burma, and after a certain period of time it is invalidated, and the most important thing is that it cannot be sold, so the more important things to the engineering regiment at this time, the less people will rob them.

Sure enough, not long after, Zhang Chi found a small western-style building in the center of the town that should be the headquarters headquarters, which was full of scattered documents, extending from the office to the road outside the gate, so that you could also see the haste and panic of these officials when they retreated.

Zhang Chi led his troops to search for it, but unfortunately he didn't find a radio station, only a pile of telegrams and a burning brazier in the office...... That was apparently used to burn some important documents.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi felt that this was not a good thing.

The reason is just like what he thought before, no matter what Zhang Chi did after coming to this time and space, he couldn't change history in the end, and the fundamental thing was that the information provided by Zhang Chi was actually known to the high-level officials of the expeditionary force in history, Du Yuming knew how to fight this battle, but in the end it ended in failure...... So the reason for the defeat was not that the expeditionary force did not know how to fight this battle, but because of the chaotic command system of the Kuomintang.

And now, the result of not being able to find a radio station is actually to disconnect the engineer regiment from this chain of command.