After a day and a half of non-stop marching, the engineer regiment reached Ba Mo.

A town of 30,000 inhabitants commonly known as Xinjie by Chinese, Bhamo is an important transportation hub in northern Myanmar with a road connecting Myitkyina to Lashio via Bhamo .

At this time, Ba Mo was still under the control of the British...... The Chinese Expeditionary Force has always fought against the Japanese army in southern Burma and central Burma, so the central and eastern fronts ceded by the British army are also within the scope of southern Burma and central Burma, while northern Burma is unplanned, and the expeditionary force did not expect to retreat to northern Burma one day before leaving the division.

It was a battalion of the Anglo-Burmese Army that defended Ba Mo...... It was not so much a battalion as a militia of Ba Mo, because this battalion was entirely Burmese, except for Major Rice and his two deputies, who were British.

Unlike the British officers they had seen before, Major Rice and his party were very kind to the sudden arrival of the Engineer Corps, and did not even refuse when the Engineer Corps asked for supplies of gasoline and British ammunition.

"Before I supply you, I just want to know how you got your guns and tanks!" Major Rice said, "They weren't taken from the British by killing them!" ”

"Of course not!" Zhang Chi replied: "They are provided for us by the British!" ”

Zhang Chi lied, of course he would not say that most of these equipment were "snatched" from the British army in Ren'anqiang.

"Haven't you heard that China and Britain are allies?" Zhang Chi added: "Let's fight the Japanese together!" ”

Zhang Chi almost vomited when he said these words, but he could only endure it for supplies and ammunition.

"Of course I heard!" Major Rice did not doubt Zhang Chi's words: "Then I will rest assured, you will get what you want, I have no reason to refuse." ”

Sometimes Zhang Chi thinks that if it weren't for Major Rice who has been maintaining law and order in Ba Mo and has a good reputation, maybe he would have been captured and killed by his Burmese subordinates with different intentions or sent to the Japanese.

"Major, I have to warn you!" After a hearty dinner, Zhang Chi said to Major Rice: "The Japanese may be here soon." You should consider withdrawing to the UK! The rest of the British forces have already done it! ”

"Withdraw to the UK?" Major Rice shook his head and said, "Maybe you don't know, I married a Burmese woman, we have three children, and this is my home!" ”

"Hmm!" Hearing this, Zhang Chi understood a little, but he felt that it was better to remind Rice: "But, maybe you don't know how murderous the Japanese are, you should consider taking your wife and children back to England!" ”

"Thank you for the suggestion!" Rice sighed helplessly and said: "But Britain is not much better than I'm afraid, there is a shortage of food there, and it is often bombed...... After returning to the UK. I'm just afraid I can't guarantee that my children won't go hungry! ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned, Rice was right, Britain was in the midst of German blockade and bombing at this time, and for a family like Rice, it was not a good choice to go back to the UK. On the other hand, the Japanese show in Burma successfully deceived the vast majority of Burmese people, and even a considerable number of British, for example, at this time, the Japanese would take the initiative to help the Burmese people work wherever they went, and would give candy to Burmese children. It will promote Japan's support for Burma's independence, etc.

On the one hand, this gave the Burmese full support for the Japanese army to drive the British away, and on the other hand, it also convinced Britons like Rice, who had families in Burma, that even if the Japanese came, it would not be a big deal, and that he could continue to live a well-fed life in Burma after surrendering.

It should be said that Major Rice was not wrong. He just wanted to simply live a peaceful life in this small town in Burma, and it didn't matter whether the British came here, the Chinese came, or the Japanese came, and he could accept it even if he lost his status as a major and military power. All he needs is a home and a safe life with his family.

But the mistake was that Major Rice's ideas were somewhat inappropriate...... This is the battlefield, and there is no such thing as peace on the battlefield. It's not that Rice wants to be free of enemies in the world, especially the Japanese, if you don't exist.

Zhang Chi knew that it was useless to persuade Rice, so he thanked Rice, and then set out on the march again.

Later, Zhang Chi learned that like many towns, Ba Mo also fell into the hands of the Japanese army without firing a shot, and even Rice had people put explosives on the bridge, but in the end he still didn't dare to ignite the explosives...... The reason for this was the same as Scott's fear of not daring to fight in Ringanqiang, fearing that the Japanese would not have a good life after surrendering.

What the Japanese captured in Bamo was a large amount of gasoline, food, and even a few fighter jets that were being assembled by the British troops stranded there.

Since then, Zhang Chi has never seen Rice again, and it is said that someone has seen him in the Japanese prisoner camp, along with his wife and children...... They will never be heard again.

The engineer regiment knew that all this would happen even after Ba Mo, but it was helpless, because the engineer regiment could not do anything to the Ba Mo controlled by the British army, let alone burn the materials of Ba Mo like the materials of Lashio.

All the engineer regiment could do was to leave and leave all the supplies for Bamo and Bamo to the Japanese army.

On the way to the march, Zhang Chi began to worry a little...... Could this be the case in Myitkyina?

However, when the Engineer Regiment rushed all the way to Myitkyina, there was an even greater difficulty in front of the Engineer Regiment...... There is no bridge over the Inovady River in front of the engineering regiment!

This couldn't help but make Zhang Chi stunned, he clearly remembered that there was a steel bridge here, and he even remembered that the name of this bridge was Myitkyina Bridge, and the Burmese called it the Bala Mindin Bridge, which was named after the Burmese in honor of the national hero Bara Mindin.

But now, it's empty. Not only that, but there is not a single bridge in sight in the entire Inovady River.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi couldn't help but open his mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time...... Just because something exists in modern times doesn't mean it exists on this plane, like the Myitkyina Bridge.

Zhang Chi's guess is correct, because the Myitkyina Bridge was built with the help of Shanghai, China in modern times, and the construction was completed in 98.

At this time, the bridge across the Inouaddy River in Burma was the Ava Bridge in Mandalay, and this bridge was also blown up by the British at this time.

It is no wonder that the 33rd Division was the first Japanese army to attack Myitkyina...... In order for the Japanese on the Eastern Front to attack Myitky, they had to cross the Inouaddy River, which was very difficult for mechanized troops.

At this time, this difficulty became a headache for the engineering regiment: with so many tanks, armored vehicles and cars in the hands of the engineering regiment, how to cross the river?! (To be continued.) )