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But fortunately, Liu Ting is not sure, and there are channels for verifying this information, so Liu Ting did not say anything, and only waited for the information feedback of the reconnaissance and capture mission arranged by Du Yuming.

The task of capturing prisoners is relatively simple, this kind of thing has not been done by the front-line troops, usually when fighting with the devils, there will be nothing to catch a few prisoners to interrogate, after all, the soldiers on the front line know one thing: the devils are very good at playing with firepower and side-firing firepower, that is, digging a dark bunker in a place that cannot be observed in the dark, and when the Chinese soldiers launched an attack, this bunker was suddenly exposed to the weak flanks and even the back of the stormtrooping troops, causing a large number of casualties among the Chinese attacking troops.

Therefore, units like the 200th Division and the New 22nd Division often capture a few Japanese prisoners to interrogate when attacking the positions garrisoned by the Japanese army, such as whether there is a hidden bunker, how many troops there are, and the distribution of firepower. Especially since the Japanese devils tend to have tight mouths, and some will even provide false information, so it is often necessary to capture a few more prisoners to get accurate information. And this seemingly insignificant information will often reduce the casualties of the Chinese army's next offensive to a considerable extent.

At this time, Du Yuming gave an order, where did several divisions of the Fifth Army dare to slack off, not only the 200th Division and the new 22nd Division, but even the 96th Division, and captured more than a dozen prisoners in one go...... In fact, this is also to blame for the soldiers of the Fifth Army being too ruthless to the Japanese army, they will more or less capture a few prisoners during the battle, but not one of them will be left. Otherwise, there is no need to temporarily arrest prisoners and torture them for something as simple as identifying the number of the Japanese army.

The results soon came out, the information on the map was correct, and the Japanese troops in front of Pingmanna were indeed two divisions instead of the one that had always been thought to be. Moreover, the extra Japanese division is the 18th Division as indicated on the map.

As soon as he heard the news, Du Yuming gritted his teeth with hatred, he knew that the 18th Division of the Japanese Army was a unit that had participated in the Nanjing Massacre, and Du Yuming had dealt with it on the domestic battlefield before, but he didn't expect to meet it again in Myanmar now.

The other verification channel is more difficult, the Chanbang Plateau on the eastern route is complex and very wide, even wider than the central and western routes combined. It was not easy to find a Japanese division in such a wide and complex terrain without aerial reconnaissance.

However, it is not difficult to say, because the map even indicates that the Japanese army will march north from Loi Khao (also known as Loikao) to Ho Pung, and then march to Lashio via Tang Zhi...... The reason why Zhang Chi knew these things and drew them on the map was because as a half-military fan, he even walked along the route of the Japanese attack in modern times.

The provisional 55th Division of the Sixth Army was stationed in the vicinity of Luo Yikao, so a telegram sent over, ordering the provisional 55th Division to prepare for battle and send reconnaissance troops to reconnoitre.

However, the Japanese troops of the 56th Division were very cunning, in order to achieve the suddenness of the battle by secretly marching, they actually put a few squadrons in front of them to disguise themselves as the Japanese troops of the Burmese Independent Volunteers to advance first, and many reconnaissance troops along the way were inexplicably defeated by these "Burmese Independent Volunteers", and even after being defeated, they thought that it was the Burmese Independent Volunteers, but they did not know that it was the Japanese army they had been looking for.

However, in the end, the temporary 55th Division discovered the traces of the Japanese army.

It was a scout of the 55th Division who had eaten a bad stomach and got into the bushes, and after squatting for a bag of cigarettes, he heard the sound of gunfire outside, and he poked his head out to take a look, only to see that the comrades-in-arms who were talking and laughing just now had all fallen in a pool of blood at this time, and a group of Burmese people in tattered clothes and white handkerchiefs came out of the jungle.

Originally, the scouts thought that these were Burmese independence volunteers, but after a while, they realized that something was wrong: the "Burmese" were dressed in Burmese attire but spoke in Japanese...... Although the scout could not understand Burmese or Japanese, he could tell which language was spoken.

So he quickly understood that it was the Japanese army pretending to be Burmese and fooling people! And the expeditionary force was still kept in the dark from top to bottom, thinking that the Japanese army was still far away, but they didn't expect that they had already killed a place that was not more than ten miles away from Luo Yikao.

The news soon reached the headquarters of the expeditionary force, and everyone, including Du Yuming, was stunned...... This shows that the information drawn on the map is accurate, which means that the Japanese 56th Division is interspersed with Lashio.

"General Du!" Stilwell said to Du Yuming: "Immediately order the 55th Division, and you must block the Japanese attack!" ”

Du Yuming just smiled, Stilwell's words are tantamount to an idiot's dream, the temporary 55th Division is not the 200th Division, it is just a temporary division, this division is not satisfactory in terms of equipment and quality, not to mention that they still face a division of the Japanese army with one division...... But this is not to blame Stilwell, he does not know about the situation of the Chinese army, nor does he know about the situation of the Japanese army, nor does he know about the military of Burma.

But then again, since Stilwell doesn't know anything about hostile me, why should he be the commander here to point fingers?!

"It's too late!" Du Yuming said helplessly: "The loss of Luo Yikao is inevitable, and now I can only give up the battle of Pingmanna and retreat to the front line of Tangji and Meimiao." ”

Saying that, Du Yuming set his eyes on Luo Zhuoying, he needed the nod of Luo Zhuoying, the commander.

Luo Zhuoying thought for a while, and then said: "I agree to give up the battle of Pingmanna, but I don't agree to passively defend on the front line of Tangji. We should accumulate strength in Mandalay with the British army and fight a big battle with the Japanese near Mandalay! ”

Hearing this, Du Yuming suddenly felt cold all over, he knew that Luo Zhuoying was still obsessed until now, and he still thought that the British would really be willing to fight the Japanese...... You must know that from the Battle of Tonggu to the Battle of Pingmanna, every time the British swore an oath, but soon reversed themselves and withdrew alone without notifying China, which can already show that the British have been deceiving and using the Chinese from the beginning to the end from the strategic to the tactical aspects!

But what can Du Yuming say? Luo Zhuoying's trust in Britain and the United States can be described as "infatuated", Du Yuming has said it countless times, but he can't convince him.

However, in any case, it is most important to withdraw the Fifth Army from Pingmanna first, otherwise the Fifth Army will be encircled by the Japanese in Pingmanna.

So Du Yuming didn't say much, and immediately issued an order for the Fifth Army to withdraw from Pingmanna.