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The reason why Zhang Chi intended to disclose this information to Ding Lun was first to teach the British a lesson.

It is conceivable that after Ding Lun gets this valuable information, he will definitely pass it on to the Burmese Independence Volunteers to ask for merit or make up for it, and the volunteers will definitely pass on the information to the Japanese army, so there is no need to talk about the next thing...... Originally, the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army was still a little afraid of the more than 40,000 well-equipped British troops on the Western Front, you must know that it was a British army with an armored brigade, and it was also defensive, and the biggest deficiency of the Japanese army was the lack of anti-armor weapons, so according to common sense, the more than 20,000 Japanese troops of the 33rd Division could not break through the British defense line.

But if you know that the British army has no intention of fighting, and you know that the British armored brigade and a large amount of equipment have been withdrawn to Ringanqiang first, then where will the Japanese army, which lacks heavy equipment, be polite to the British army, of course, it is necessary to find a way to surrender this batch of equipment located in Ringanqiang, especially Ringanqiang is still a big oil field, it will kill two birds with one stone for the Japanese army.

In fact, this is how history developed, and the Japanese troops of a wing of the 33rd Division penetrated into Ringanqiang and surrounded more than 9,000 British troops and armored troops there...... This thing looks strange on the surface, how can the Japanese army of more than 3,000 people surround the British army of more than 9,000 people who are well-equipped with tanks, heavy artillery, etc.?

In fact, it is not surprising, the reason is just as the British armored regiment chose to abandon the tank breakthrough at the Tongwa Bridge before, the British mechanized troops relied heavily on the road, and the infantry did not dare to enter the jungle to fight the Japanese army, so the Japanese army only needed to penetrate to the front to block the road, ferry, and bridge, and the British army of more than 9,000 people could not walk and waited for surrender.

In the end, the reason why this British army was able to escape was because the expeditionary force sent the new 38th Division, that is, Sun Liren's troops, to the rescue. It was precisely because he knew about this incident that Zhang Chi knew that the British armored forces would retreat to Ringanqiang.

However, what would have happened in history, why did Zhang Chi bother to let Ding Lun report it like this?

Zhang Chi has his own reasons.

The key to this is that after the British army fled, they also blocked the news from the Chinese side, and even its commander Alexander vowed to fight the Japanese army to the death...... It was not until two days later that the Chinese side learned that the British had long since abandoned the Western Front and fled, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force deployed at Pingmanna had once again lost the best opportunity to retreat under the lies of the British, so it not only suffered heavy casualties, but also made the subsequent war fall into complete passivity.

Zhang Chi's idea was: since the retreat of the British army was inevitable, then ...... We can't stop the British army from retreating, but we can let the British army retreat be known to the Chinese expeditionary force in advance.

As for why the Chinese Expeditionary Force knew in advance, it depends on whether the Japanese army will send troops to Ringanqiang in advance after receiving the news from Ding Lun, and then the British army will be blocked in Ringanqiang and will ask the Chinese Expeditionary Force for help, so naturally they will not be able to block the news of the retreat.

It is also important to note that the British army has always used various excuses not to provide supplies and gasoline for the expeditionary force, but since the Battle of Ringanqiang, the British army has not dared to do so.

There are two reasons for this:

First of all, the Battle of Ren'anqiang was when the British begged the Chinese expeditionary force to save their army, and the British army had a request for help, where would they dare to find an excuse to refuse.

The second and more important thing was, of course, that the British realized that they had shot themselves in the foot.

Originally, they thought that they could retreat safely as long as they played some tricks to leave the Chinese behind to block the sword for them, in this case, they were not willing to provide any supplies to China, and it was better if the Chinese were also beaten worse by Japan, so that the British would not lose their faces.

But I didn't expect the Japanese to play a roundabout trick, interspersed with this trick, and grabbed ahead of them at a speed that the British couldn't have imagined, blocking their way...... At this time, if the Chinese were defeated, it would be impossible to withdraw their hands to save the British army, so for the sake of their own lives, they did not dare to slack off in terms of supplies.

So...... The problem of the supply of the engineer regiment was solved.

That said, there are three possible benefits to doing so:

One is to teach the British a lesson, and to take a bad breath for themselves for the best people;

the second is to expose the fact that the British army retreated ahead of schedule, so as to gain two days or even more time for the next deployment of the expeditionary force;

The third is to let the British army supply the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Of course, this may have hurt a little, but the essence of this was that more British people were surrounded by the Japanese army in exchange for the interests of the Chinese expeditionary force. But there is a saying "you are unkind, I am unjust", the British stab us Chinese in the back, we will not be polite to you!

Thinking of this, Zhang Chi no longer hesitated, and immediately stretched his waist and ordered: "The brothers are also tired from rushing here, this warehouse is very good, hurry up and find a place to rest, when the troops come up, I am afraid that there will not be such a good opportunity!" ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

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The warriors responded, and immediately found a place in the warehouse.

It is said that the engineering regiment is all the way to reconnoiter and break the road, busy during the day and busy at night, and can only rest when the main force passes through the bridge or highway with explosives and other explosives, and it is already too tired to work, and it is rare to find this warehouse at this time is a safe and shady place, and it is not long before lying down that they snored loudly.

Zhang Chi was also tired, but he couldn't sleep, he didn't want Na Ding Lun to kill while they were asleep...... At that time, Zhang Chi was about to put his life on the line.

However, Na Ding Lun may have been afraid of waking up the others, or because he was injured and unable to do anything more, so he just looked around for a while, and when he saw that everyone was asleep, he got up and walked to the door of the warehouse and said to the fellow villagers on duty that he wanted to relieve himself.

Of course, the fellow villagers did not doubt it, and he didn't leave when the platoon commander wanted to let him go just now, and besides, he had an injury on his leg and how far he could run, so he let him out without thinking about it.

After waiting for a long time and not seeing Ding Lun come back, the fellow villagers felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly ran to Zhang Chi's side and shouted while shaking: "Platoon commander, wake up, Ding Lun may have escaped!" ”

"Oh!" Zhang Chi responded: "It's good to run!" ”

"What?" This time, the townspeople were confused.

"It's worth your sentry!" Zhang Chi replied impatiently: "I know about this, don't worry about it so much!" ”

"Yes!" The fellow villagers responded, thinking about it, they were still not at ease, and they were about to ask the matter clearly, but they saw that Zhang Chi had turned over and fell asleep.

Before falling asleep, Zhang Chi read in his heart: "It's all up to you, Comrade Ding Lun, don't let me down!" ”