The cessation of the Japanese attack on Myitkyina caused Du Yuming to further misunderstand the war in Myitkyina.

If there is gunfire in Myitkyina, then Du Yuming, who rushed to the vicinity of Myitkyina, will of course know that the fighting in Myitkyina is still going on, so he will send scouts to reconnoiter anyway.

But there were no gunshots in Myitkyina, and if there were any, there were only a few of them...... So naturally, everyone, including Du Yuming, thought: We are really a step too late, the battle in Myitkyina is over, and those sporadic gunshots are just the Japanese army clearing the rout.

Then, Du Yuming led his troops out of the railway overnight, taking advantage of the night to bypass Myitkyina along a road found by the vanguard and then continue to march northward.

The more you wait in Myitkyina, the more unpleasant it becomes...... It is said that the main force of the Fifth Army should also arrive at this time! Why hasn't it arrived yet?

Could it be that the Fifth Army would have bypassed Myitkyina and advanced towards the Savage Mountains in this situation, as history has done?

Then the more Zhang Chi thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, because the engineer regiment could not contact the Fifth Army, and if Du Yuming mistakenly thought that Myitkyina was in the hands of the Japanese army, then it would be ......

"Alas!" Thinking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't sit still, and he couldn't care about hanging up the phone to Wang Mazi's headquarters late at night.

Under normal circumstances, the telephone line of the company commander is not directly connected to the regimental headquarters, except for the company headquarters that fights on the front line, of course.

Zhang Chi will have a phone call to the regiment headquarters is Wang Mazi's special explanation, and he also added a sentence at the end: "Don't say it again in the future, no matter where the company is, you have to pull it!" ”

"Hey!" After a while, Wang Mazi's voice came from the other end of the phone, and he was full of anger when he heard the voice, so Zhang Chi knew that Wang Mazi hadn't slept yet.

"Tuanza!" Zhang Chi said: "The Fifth Army hasn't come yet......

"I'm anxious about this, too!" Wang Mazi replied: "We don't know anything here, what if Shangfeng changes his order or changes the direction of the march?" At that time, I'm afraid that the main force will all be withdrawn, and we are still stupidly working with the devils here! ”

"Tuanza!" Zhang Chi pushed the boat smoothly and said, "Why don't you ...... I'll take a few people to scout. Let's see if we can get some news! ”

After thinking about it, Wang Mazi answered "um" on the other end of the phone, paused and continued: "That's fine, you know Burmese, go outside the devil's encirclement and ask the Burmese villagers to see if you see the Chinese army or anything!" Stay safe! ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi answered, put down the phone and called the troops out of bed.

"Company commander!" Xiao Zhejiang asked: "Is this going to war?" ”

"Scouting!" Zhang Chi replied while strapping an armed belt.

"Scouting?" Xiao Zhejiang couldn't help but be full of doubts: "This devil has surrounded Myitkyina, and even the other side of the river is full of devils, this ...... How can you get out! ”

Xiao Zhejiang's words were not wrong, on the afternoon of the day the battle on Myitkyina's side began. A fast column of about 1,000 men of the 56th Division was inserted across the Inovady River, but without a ferry, they could only face the river.

Zhang Chi slapped Xiao Zhejiang's head fiercely and said, "The devils are surrounding, have they also surrounded the river?" Can't we just go out by boat? ”

Xiao Zhejiang couldn't help but sigh and touched his head aggrievedly.

The fellow villagers were busy checking the rifle while smiling at Xiao Zhejiang: "You deserve it, remember to think about it with your head when you ask a question next time!" ”

Zhang Chi set off with two platoons and three armored vehicles each.

As Zhang Chi said, because the Inovady River surrounds Myitkyina, they can easily break through the Japanese encirclement and blockade by boat...... It depends on who controls the Innovady River, and it can even be said. The battle here in Myitkyina is that whoever controls the Innovady River has the initiative.

In this respect, it was clear that the Engineer Regiment had an advantage, the Japanese did not have a few ships at all, while the Engineer Regiment had large ferries. And with cannons and faster small and medium-sized civilian ships converted into gunboats, these gunboats from time to time from the port out of the harbor to the river to the devil on the opposite bank is a cannonball, and then hide back, only to hit the devil in the belly but helpless.

But in fact, the devil is not helpless, because there are many ways to deal with the ship. For example, blockade with artillery fire, or bombing with airplanes...... By this time, the Japanese had already occupied Mandalay, preliminarily repaired the runway damaged by the Sino-British coalition forces, and transferred a group of fighter jets to Mandalay to provide air support. And fighters, in turn, are the natural enemies of ships. Even knowing that the devil plane is coming, there is nowhere to hide.

However, fortunately, the strategic center of gravity of the Japanese army at this time was not Myitkyina, so the engineer regiment was allowed to control the Inouaddy River. This made it very easy for Zhang Chi to use the ferry to jump out of the encirclement.

Zhang Chi divided the troops into two parts, one part was led by the demon to reconnoiter downstream, and the other part was led by himself to reconnoiter upstream...... This was because he did not know whether the Fifth Army was on its way to Myitkyina or had already passed Myitkyina, so he simply searched in both directions.

Soon Zhang Chi knew that it was right to search upstream, and their armored vehicles had not gone far on the road when they saw traces of tank tracks pressed on the road......

It was the T26 of the Fifth Army, and it was easy for Zhang Chi to make such a judgment, because the width of the T26 tank was more than three meters, while the Japanese Army's Type 95 and Type 97 were only more than two meters, especially the width of the Type 95 tank was only 2.06 meters, so by looking at the width of the track print, you could tell the enemy and the enemy and even see the model of the tank.

This proves that the Fifth Army has bypassed Myitkyina and has only been away from Myitkyina for some time.

Zhang Chi did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the soldiers to drive the armored car to chase forward along the tracks, and the further Zhang Chi chased him, the more certain he was that the front was the main force of the Fifth Army, because there were abandoned cars everywhere along the way, bulky cannons overturned on the side of the road, and even a few broken down armored vehicles.

Zhang Chi guessed correctly, it had been ten hours since the Fifth Army left Myitkyina at this time, and they were worried that the devils would follow and catch up, so they did not rest and rushed north, but the further north they went, the worse the road condition became...... At first it was an asphalt road, then a dirt road, and the width changed from two cars side by side to only one car, and finally even a sheep's intestine path.

So the troops had to stop, and all eyes were on their commander with panic and even hatred in their eyes...... This is human nature, although Du Yuming has a good reputation in the army, if the commander leads them to a dead end, they will still have resentment in their hearts. (To be continued.) )