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The decision of the command to abandon the Battle of Pyongmana was manifested in the fact that there were fewer soldiers and vehicles to reinforce the front line, and instead there were groups of vehicles loaded with wounded and supplies in the opposite direction.

The engineer regiment also received an order to rush to Tangji with the 200th Division to garrison.

Knowing this order, Zhang Chi knew that his map had worked, that is, Shangfeng finally realized that the battle of Pingmanna was unwise, and the most important thing was the crisis on the Eastern Front.

So Zhang Chicai couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time thought that his map almost told Shangfeng the entire plan of the Japanese army, and even the specific time of the 56th Division's capture of Lashio, if this battle was still unprepared or cut off by the Japanese army like history, then he would have nothing to say.

However, what Zhang Chi didn't know was that the failure of this battle in history was not that no one saw the crisis on the Eastern Front. In fact, Du Yuming in history has always emphasized the importance of Tang Ji and Mei Miao, and has always argued with reason, but in the end he still failed to withstand the large number of people who did not understand military affairs but held power and commanded indiscriminately.

Alexander, Stilwell, Luo Zhuoying, Lin Wei, Chiang Kai-shek...... No matter which one of them can directly or indirectly order Du Yuming, so that he cannot dispatch troops according to his own ideas.

Among them, Alexander may have had the least influence on Du Yuming, but in fact it is not.

The reason is that Alexander may have no way to deal with the Japanese army, but when dealing with his allies, it can be said that he is full of wisdom and ruthlessness......

When the expeditionary force received the information to withdraw from Pingmanna, Alexander's head began to turn again:

The Chinese could not be allowed to retreat like this, and if they did, the Japanese would chase after the British. There was a Ren'an Qiang before, and then there is a very likely second Ren'an Qiang, and if the British army is besieged again, and the Chinese themselves are too busy to take care of themselves, of course, they will not come to save the British again.

Is there any way to hold back the Chinese?

Alexander knew that it was impossible to fool Du Yuming, and this Chinese himself did not take his words seriously, not to mention that as a Chinese, he also considered the problem from the perspective of China's interests.

As for Luo Zhuoying, he is just a dog who obeys Stilwell's orders.

So Alexander thought of Stilwell...... This fool is an American, and he will not care about the safety of the Chinese army. At the same time, for the sake of the interests of the United States and his own heroic dream, he also wanted to promote a big battle between the Chinese army and the British army and the Japanese army to consume the Japanese offensive energy.

Thinking of this, Alexander had an idea, he looked at the map and thought for a while, and then said to the adjutant: "Send a telegram to General Stilwell, just say that Chokba has found a Japanese army of 3,000 people in the direction, this Japanese army is likely to threaten the back route of the British army's withdrawal to India, for the safety of tens of thousands of British troops, we may have no choice but to abandon the Battle of Mandalay and withdraw to India first!" ”

The adjutant couldn't help but be stunned, because he had not received the news that there were 3,000 Japanese troops in Chokpadang, and the Chinese engineering regiment had a big fight in the Ren'anqiang oil field and ignited the war again, and the Japanese 33rd Division was busy fighting the fire in the oil field at this time! And General Slim has also built a defensive line on the front line of the Bing River, how can the Japanese army appear in Chokpadang?!

But the adjutant still answered, "Yes!" And he carried out the order.

Alexander: This is retreating for advance...... Didn't you, Stilwell, hope to bring about a big battle between the British and the Chinese in Mandalay? Then I'll make you anxious first!

Sure enough, Stilwell was quickly fooled.

Ten minutes later, Alexander received a call back from Stilwell: Alex, I hope you can continue to stay and fight, otherwise the battle of Mandalay will not be able to be talked about, and the safety of the whole of Burma is at stake.

So Alexander naturally threw out a brazen request: Joe, I must think about the lives of tens of thousands of British soldiers. You know, my troops are not able to resist the Japanese pursuit because of their low morale, and unless we can send a Chinese army to hold Chokpadang, so that the British can withdraw to Mandalay to rest and prepare for battle, we have no choice!

This seems plausible on the surface, but in reality Alexander was using a false piece of information to trick Stilwell into transferring the Chinese army to Chokpadang to cover the retreat of the British army.

Stilwell, who may have been eloquent but was no match for Alexander in his intrigues, believed Alexander's words and replied: "I will do my best to facilitate this, and ask the General to command the British army to prepare for the Battle of Mandalay!" ”

How could Stilwell know that the British had never thought about the Battle of Mandalay from beginning to end, and Alexander had even loaded explosives on the Ava Bridge in Mandalay and was ready to retreat.

Alexander fooled Stilwell, he completed the task, and the next headache was Stilwell.

Stilwell, who did not have the same command experience and military talent as Du Yuming, nor the sinister and cunning mind of the political army like Alexander, only thought about how to stand in the interests of the United States to bring the Chinese and British armies together to fight a major war against the Japanese army, and at the same time add a lot of credit to his own credit.

So he started to think about it: it was impossible to get Du Yuming to agree to send troops to help the British defend Chokpadang, and Du Yuming would only consider the problem from the perspective of China's interests and would not take into account the overall situation...... So, looking at the same thing from different angles can sometimes lead to ridiculous results.

For example, it seems to outsiders that it is obvious that Stilwell is on Alexander, and he can't see the situation clearly, but from Stilwell's point of view, it is...... It's all the fault of the self-righteous and disobedient Chinese officers, they are all fools!

Stilwell continued to think: Du Yuming doesn't care about the overall situation, but Luo Zhuoying is not, what he can influence is Luo Zhuoying.

So Stilwell discussed with Luo Zhuoying, asking Luo Zhuoying to bypass Du Yuming and skip the command in the name of the commander of the expeditionary force, and the 200th Division, which was being transferred to Tangji, was transferred to Chokpadang.

And for all this, Du Yuming was completely kept in the dark, he thought that Tangji was already on the way to Tangji on the eastern front, but in fact, he was transferred to Chokbadang on the western front.

When he heard the order to change direction and rush to Chokba with the 200th Division, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be dumbfounded...... He couldn't understand why the command headquarters would give up Tangji, the gateway to Lashio, to the Japanese army when he knew the Japanese army's battle plan, didn't this stretch out the neck of the Chinese army for the Japanese devils to chop down?!