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Early the next morning, Zhang Chi and others sat in an American M2 half-track armored car and drove on the Moltke Highway.

Last night's breakout battle was fought smoothly, not only smoothly but also beyond imagination, the engineer regiment broke through the Japanese encirclement and covered the withdrawal of the 200th division from Tonggu at the cost of only more than 100 casualties.

Among the notable:

First, they annihilated at least one brigade of thousands of Japanese troops.

You must know that the main force of the 200th Division fought fiercely in Tonggu for more than ten days, and only killed and wounded more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers at the cost of more than 2,000 people, while the engineer regiment killed more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers in less than one night with more than 100 casualties...... Moreover, this is a conservative estimate, since the battle took place at night, the casualties on the Japanese side caused by the indiscriminate bombardment of the tank against the enemy are not counted.

The other is that all the personnel of the 200th Division did not even leave a single picker.

The reason why it is said that there is not even a single food picker left behind is because last night, after arriving at the Moltke Highway, the 200th Division took a blank stake to count the personnel, and found that the wounded, logistics, baggage and other personnel were all missing, and there was one less food picker (the porter of the cooking class). Everyone thought that he had an accident or fell into the hands of the Japanese army, but they didn't expect him to come back after dawn...... It turned out that he was lost on the march at night, and only at dawn did he find the right direction and chase all the way.

With these two points, the soldiers of the engineer regiment looked at the soldiers of the main force with a little shame...... In the past, the main force was looked down upon, but now the one is proud of it!

"It's a fucking good fight!" The first to express his thoughts was the old squad leader, who leisurely crossed Erlang's legs in his seat, took a puff with a cigarette stick, and said while spitting smoke: "I have fought for decades, and most of them are chased by devils, even if Kunlun Pass wins the devil, it will pay considerable casualties, but this battle is ...... Killing a devil is like killing a chicken! ”

"The British's equipment is just good!" The fellow villager took the Enfield rifle in front of him and said, "If it weren't for this thing, and those tanks, our engineer regiment wouldn't have been able to fight so many devils in our dreams!" ”

"Hey, why are the British guys well-equipped!" The extremely poor student who was driving the car in front of him said without looking back while playing the steering wheel: "The British are equipped, so don't you let the devil run around like a duck?" If you want me to say, the equipment is better or secondary, and the more important thing is to see if there is a seed! ”

"Yes, it's those British who didn't breed!" Xiao Zhejiang, who was checking the injury on his arm, raised his head and snorted: "What is the British?" If our troops had the same equipment as theirs, they would have recovered Rangoon long ago and driven the Japanese devils into the sea! Now, we have these equipment, and we can fight as many devils as we come! Platoon commander, you're right! ”

Zhang Chi just smiled and didn't speak.

It was normal for the warriors to have such thoughts, and the victory last night had indeed come too easily, so the warriors' confidence naturally swelled.

But Zhang Chi knew that on the one hand, the equipment of the engineer regiment was much more advanced than usual, and on the other hand, the Japanese army was not prepared.

And...... If the engineer regiment wants to continue to maintain such combat effectiveness, or this batch of equipment, there are at least two crises.

One is that the Chinese and British allies do not have air supremacy...... The British planes were bombed to the ground by the Japanese before they took off, which made the skies over Burma basically dominated by Japanese planes, and the consequence was that the tank units basically did not dare to use them during the day, otherwise they would be easily bombed by Japanese fighters.

Second, the equipment in the hands of the engineer regiment is the equipment of the British army, and they need a lot of ammunition and gasoline, especially the British rifles and machine guns on the tanks are large consumers of ammunition, and last night's battle consumed most of the reserves of the engineer regiment. And any part of Burma that was not under the control of the Japanese was under the control of the British, would the British be willing to provide ammunition, petrol or replacement guns for the engineering regiments?

This is highly doubtful, since expeditionary forces are often rejected by the British on the grounds that they "have no gas" when they go to the front...... Everyone knows that it is impossible for the British to be without gasoline, this is Burma, Burma with the China-Burma highway, and all the materials transported by the United States, including ammunition and gasoline, must pass through this route, and the British will have no gasoline?!

But what is the specific reason for the British to do this, even Zhang Chi, a modern person, feels a little strange: why would the British prefer to leave strategic materials to the Japanese rather than to the Chinese? At least China is still an ally of Britain now, isn't it? The two sides have a common strategic goal, which is to defeat the Japanese and drive them out of Burma, right?!

However, at this time, Zhang Chi was not really concerned about these, he was carefully looking at the map in his hand, a map of Myanmar that he had asked for from the demon.

While looking at the map, Zhang Chi tried to recall everything he knew about the battle.

The 200th Division broke through Tonggu, which can be said to be a victory or a defeat.

Let's say it's a victory, because this is the first battle that the squadron has fought since going abroad, and it is a beautiful battle with fewer victories.

To say that it is a failure is to lose the important place of Tonggu...... As I said before, the area south of Tonggu is relatively narrow, and the north of Tonggu is wider Burma and China, which makes Tonggu like a gateway, and the Japanese army can only have two offensive routes, that is, the western front against the British army and the eastern front against the expeditionary force, but now it has become three, namely the west road, the middle road, and the east road.

This made the expeditionary force need more troops to defend against the Japanese attack in a more dispersed manner, and it was precisely because of this that the final rout of the expeditionary force's first expedition was laid...... It was the extra east road that could not be defended, which directly led to the expeditionary force being copied and even returning to the country, and they had to detour to Savage Mountain.

To put it simply, the Battle of Tonggu was a tactical victory for China, and the squadron played a prestige and military prestige, especially in contrast to the British squadron that was about to collapse and flee in front of the Japanese army, the squadron was able to win more with less, which caused great repercussions in the international community.

However, this was a strategic failure, as it put the Chinese expeditionary force on the defensive, and the subsequent battles were basically broken through or even surrounded by the Japanese from weak points.

How can this passive situation be reversed?

In other words, how can we influence the strategic policy of the top of the expeditionary force?!

Zhang Chi fell into deep thought again.