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"Quick, turn off the faucet!" Izuo Tsunai gave the first order, and his first reaction was to salvage supplies.

This command sounds correct, the gasoline is coming out of the tap, so just turn off the tap to temporarily stop the gasoline from spreading in Lashio.

But Izuo Tsunachi thinks things simply...... What he would have thought of, how could Zhang Chi not think of it?!

As Liu Ting said, the water pipe in Lashio was moved by the engineering regiment...... As for what hands and feet have been moved, in fact, it is to loosen the joints of each water pipe so that some water can seep out.

The oozing water was originally not obvious because the Japanese army was on the tap...... When the faucet was open, the pressure in the water pipe was small, and the water seeped out not much, so the Japanese army did not notice, in fact, they did not notice it in the dark.

But as soon as the faucet is turned off, the water bursts out of the pipe like a fountain when the pressure increases...... Of course, at this time, instead of water, gasoline was spewed, and even some parts of the water pipe burst in an instant, and the gasoline flowed even more happily on the ground.

This phenomenon is described as adding fuel to the fire in an idiom, and after a while, the town of Lashio is full of flames and burning more and more.

Only then did Izuo realize that he had fallen into a trap carefully designed by the enemy, and now let alone rescue supplies, it would be good to be able to bring the troops out of here safely.

So Izuo didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Retreat! Retreat and withdraw from Lashio! ”

But it was too late to retreat at this time, Wang Mazi waved his hand, and the soldiers outflanked the two wings of Lashio under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, and then several flares rose into the sky to illuminate the exit of Lashio, and the Japanese troops who had just escaped from Lashio in a hurry were exposed to the fire of the soldiers, and the soldiers were a piece of bullets and shells, and it was very easy to knock the Japanese soldiers who fled in confusion to the ground.

This time, the Japanese army was uncomfortable, and it was not impossible to rush.

Rush, the enemy concentrated fire to block all exits, and rushing means breaking through the enemy's bullet rain.

If you don't rush it, you can only stay inside and wait to be burned.

Horizontal and vertical are death, that is, which way to die.

It didn't take long for them to lose even the power to choose, because the troops of the Engineer Corps outflanked from both flanks had blocked the exits with tanks and armored vehicles, and the only way for the Japanese to escape was to rush through the lines laid by the Engineer Corps with tanks and armor-piercing vehicles.

The Japanese army was clearly unable to break through such a defensive line...... They are airborne troops, and they carry very little heavy equipment, let alone anti-tank equipment, and they are not organized to rush and fight, so they cannot pose a threat to the soldiers' defense line at all.

All Zhang Chi and the soldiers had to do was to easily shoot bullets at the rout soldiers who had escaped.

In just a few moments, a hill of corpses was piled up at the exit. If you haven't run out yet, you don't need to run, because Lashio has become a sea of fire at this time, and there are terrible screams of Japanese soldiers everywhere, and occasionally you can see a few Japanese soldiers running and jumping in the flames...... This makes Lashio like a hell and a volcano, a volcano that torments those imps who have done evil in their previous lives.

The soldiers silently watched those devils screaming and shouting inside, although this can be said to be a human tragedy, but no one has a hidden heart for them, because almost every one of them has the blood debt of the Japanese army, and these blood debts, if the batch of burned devils in Lashio are used to pay it off, it is far from enough.

"Lieutenant Colonel Bai!" Wang Mazi asked Bai Ping: "What are your plans?" ”

Bai Ping couldn't help but be stunned, and asked Wang Mazi: "Aren't you going back to China?" ”

"No!" Wang Mazi replied: "We have received an order to go to Myitkyina!" ”

"Hmm!" Bai Ping couldn't help frowning.

Because it is obvious that there are so many Japanese troops here in Lashio, which means that the China-Burma road to China is definitely not safe, and if they return to China according to the original plan, it is very likely that they will repeat what happened before.

Bai Ping discussed with the female soldiers, and then said to Wang Mazi: "Let's go to Myitkyina with you, we are translators, maybe we will help somewhat!" ”

"Hmm!" Wang Mazi nodded.

In the event that the radio station is found, the Corps of Engineers will indeed need these interpreters to get in touch with the Peak.

So with Wang Mazi's order, the convoy of the engineering regiment drove towards Myitkyina, leaving only a piece of fire in the back of Lashio to continue to burn, and occasionally there were a few explosions.

The soldiers walked on the road for a long time, and one by one they looked at the fire of Lashio in the distance...... What they are looking at is not Lashio, nor is it the fire, but the motherland, the direction of home!

At this time, they are getting farther and farther away from home, and no one will know when they can go back and whether they can go back!

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The march along the way was also smooth, after all, northern Burma after Lashio was no longer the focus of the Japanese offensive.

At this time, the focus of the Japanese army was still to gain a foothold at Lashio and advance along the China-Burma Highway towards western Yunnan, and the other road was to outflank the left side of Mandalay.

At this time, the British, who had vowed to carry out the Battle of Mandalay in Mandalay, unsurprisingly embarked on the road of "attacking in the other direction" again, leaving only the Chinese Fifth Army and the New 38th Division to sit and wait for the Japanese army in Mandalay on the Western Front and the Central Line respectively.

From this we can also understand how insidious the intentions of the British are...... The Chinese now have no way out, and the way back to Lashio has been cut off, so the Chinese can only follow behind them all the way to India, and the result of retreating towards India is to cover the British troops all the way behind the first retreat, so the "fleeing general" Alexander successfully completed his mission and successfully withdrew the British troops from Burma.

It's just that what the British didn't expect was that Du Yuming would not choose to withdraw to the UK, but chose to retreat into northern Myanmar and then return to China over the mountains of off-road people...... The reason why Du Yuming made this decision was because of Chiang Kai-shek's orders on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is very likely that he was willful:

Since the Chinese army entered Burma to fight, Britain and the United States have been dragging their feet, the United States is better, Stilwell is just a random command, and Britain is naked deception, use and financing the enemy, so Du Yuming is angry, resolutely no longer believe that Britain and the United States will certainly not retreat to British-controlled India.

Objectively speaking, Du Yuming still lacks some of the demeanor of a general at this point, and the first thing a general should consider is not his own feelings and dignity, but the lives of tens of thousands of people in the entire army.

There is a saying that staying in Qingshan is not afraid of no firewood, which means that in this case, Du Yuming should make the choice of retreating to India to preserve his strength, but it is a pity that Du Yuming in history did not do this.