At this time, the British supplies received by the engineer regiment at the Myitkyina railway station came in handy.

Without these supplies, Stilwell's first task was to meet the supply of the Chinese army in Myitkyina...... You must know that it is an army of more than 40,000 people, and the food, clothing, ammunition, etc. are enough for the US transport planes in the direction of India to be busy for a while. And these are the things that have to be done, otherwise the Myitkyina Line of Defense would not be able to call it a line of defense.

But now, Stilwell doesn't have to worry about that at all.

Whatever the Chinese army wants, they can just go to the warehouse and get it, and they still have everything they need, even rain ponchos...... It's not that the British are delicate, it's that their army has been colonizing Burma for nearly a hundred years, and their troops have long since adapted to the Burmese climate and equipped with relevant equipment.

As a result, Stilwell's dozens of transport planes in India were freed up to concentrate on airdropping anti-aircraft equipment to Myitkyina...... The reason for the airdrop is that there are two airports in northern Myanmar, one in Myitkyina and the other in the grapes west of Sunbrabeg.

Myitkyina airport is too close to the front line for transport planes to land, and Grape is too small for large transport planes to take off and land.

So for almost a month, the soldiers of the expeditionary force did only one thing: to find the anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and ammunition dropped by the transport plane, and transport them to a suitable place and assemble them.

Of course, the Japanese army was unwilling to send strategic materials into northern Burma in batches like this, so they sent fighter planes to intercept them several times, but the Japanese army soon found that everything they did was in vain...... The reason for this was that the Japanese fighters took off from Mandalay, and their flanks were exposed to Imphal in the west on their way to Myitkyina, which meant that the U.S. Air Force stationed in Imphal could intercept the Japanese fighters with less fuel and more time.

(Note: The 10th Air Group of the United States in India was launched in January of the same year.) The purpose of its establishment was to provide air cover for the Sino-British coalition forces and seize air supremacy, but because of the negative operations of the British army, several battles failed to start one after another, so the 10th Air Group of the US Army has not played a role. Historically, this air brigade was then transferred to North Africa to participate in the British-led Battle of El Alamein because the Japanese had occupied all of Burma and could not play a role. At this time, since northern Burma was still in the hands of the Chinese army, there was no need for the 10th Air Brigade to be transferred to North Africa as in history. ）

More importantly, the U.S. military in Imphal, India, has a steady stream of supplies from the U.S. side. The Japanese army's supplies in Mandalay, including ammunition and fuel for fighter jets, had to be transported from the Japanese mainland to Yangon, and then transported to Mandalay by muddy roads and railways in the rainy season, which had not yet been fully opened, and this fragile transportation line was even bombed by American fighters from time to time.

Therefore, the Japanese army simply could not afford to consume and fight. As the expeditionary force had more and more air defense equipment in their hands, the sky over Myitkyina gradually became quiet. This has made it easier for U.S. military transport planes to deliver strategic supplies to Myitkyina, and sometimes even land at Myitkyina airport to unload their cargo.

There is a saying that war is fought about logistics and materials, and there is indeed some truth in this statement...... For example, at this time, because the logistics and transportation and material situation of the Sino-US coalition forces were much better than those of the Japanese army, they successfully seized air supremacy in northern Burma.

On the other hand, it is necessary to establish a training base in Sunbrabang and to open a road from Myitkyina to Sunbrabang and from Sunbrabang to India.

In fact, this cannot be said to be "open". Because there were already roads from Myitkyina to Sunbrabang and Ledo in India, but these roads were too narrow for large quantities of supplies, which required a great deal of labour to widen them.

At this point, the Chinese soldiers may be able to bear it, but Stilwell believes that the total number of the expeditionary force is only 40,000, and these forces to defend the Myitkyina defense line and establish an anti-aircraft fire network are already slightly insufficient, and if they still need to transfer manpower to build roads, build bases, and train in the near future, it will undoubtedly bring many unpredictable dangers to the Myitkyina defense line.

Since there is no need for Chinese soldiers. Naturally, the Burmese people can only be used.

So the supplies left behind by the British army played a role again...... The only thing that could make the people work was food.

At this point, don't worry about the money, money is all about being able to buy things. In northern Burma, where there are mountains full of lofty mountains, transportation and commerce have not developed much, and it is still a time of war, even a large amount of dollars in your hand is not much different from rubbing papyrus.

However, there are a large number of overseas Chinese and some Burmese people who have fled in Myitkyina, but they are starving and freezing because of lack of food and clothing, so there is no need to think about it...... Let them go to build roads and bases, and their wages will be settled with grain.

This made those overseas Chinese and the Burmese people very happy. You only need to pay labor to fill your stomach, so why not.

Among them, especially overseas Chinese, they were originally very supportive of the Chinese army fighting the Japanese devils, and at this time, they could support their own troops and earn food, of course, there would be no opinions, some overseas Chinese and even the whole family took them to build roads, but the food they asked for only needed to be wrapped in their stomachs.

In their words. That is: "The Chinese army is here to help us fight devils, the soldiers pay blood, lives, we just contribute a little effort, if this requires more compensation, then we are still Chinese?" ”

Not to mention, in this foreign country, especially now it can be said that the expeditionary force "Tiger fell in Pingyang" in a foreign country, can get the help of the villagers, which really makes the soldiers grateful.

The hooligan sighed: "With the support of these fellow villagers, it's worth it for us to fight the devils in this ghost place!" ”

Although the enthusiasm of the Burmese people will be worse than that of overseas Chinese, they can be regarded as participating in the widening of the highway and its maintenance project under the call of Unata.

With the joint efforts of the people of northern Myanmar and overseas Chinese, the highway from Ledo to Sunbrabang in India was widened enough to be wide enough for two cars to drive side by side in less than a month.

At the moment of the opening of the highway, the U.S. aid materials that had already been gathered in Ledo, India, drove into the training base along the highway like a tidal wave, including a large number of tanks, artillery and other American-style weapons, British military uniforms, and a large number of daily necessities for the training and refitting of Chinese soldiers.

So a training and rearmament base was formed in the rear of Myitkyina. (To be continued.) )