Later, the Engineer Regiment even increased from more than 700 to more than 3,000.

Although the more than 2,000 additional people were the remnants of the New 29th Division and the 55th Division, they were all soldiers who wanted to stay and fight against the Japanese army... This was exactly what the Engineer Regiment needed.

However, there are only these two thousand people.

When Zhang Chi and others forced their troops to reach Lashio before the Japanese army reached the city, they found that they did not organize defenses as they imagined... You should know that this is the rear of the Expeditionary Force, and the logistics supplies of the 100,000 Expeditionary Forces in Myanmar are here, and they are also the gateway to China. In such an important place, it can even be said that the 66th Army and the 6th Army were sent to defend in this area, but at this critical moment, there was no decent defense.

Not only did they not see the defense, but there were also a scattered group of soldiers in the town... There were defeated soldiers fighting for supplies everywhere, and there were cars filled with packages everywhere, and there were also tied beside the carriages loaded with roofs. It was obvious that these defeated soldiers were not thinking about how to block the Japanese attack, but also wanted to get more benefits before the Japanese army fought to Lashio and returned to the country.

These defeated soldiers who were fighting for supplies were shocked when they saw the engineer corps driving tanks into the town. They thought it was the Japanese army who had entered, so they stopped their lives and fled in scattered ways. However, when they found out that they were not Japanese but their own people, they soon began their scramble again without restraint. The crowd even blocked the way forward of the engineer corps.

"Room!" the adjutant asked Wang Mazi: "What should I do?"

Wang Mazi was silent for a while, then gritted her teeth and spit out a word: "Try!"

"beat!"

The tank that was driving in the front immediately fired the cannon, and then the machine gun swept around.

Of course, because we knew that the targets were all our own people, we fired artillery and machine guns in places where no one was, but the bullets were blinded, and some defeated soldiers who were fighting for supplies were knocked to the ground.

The defeated soldiers realized that the troops were serious, so they immediately dispersed.

Zhang Chi also felt helpless about this... China will never lack warriors like Meng Lezeng who dared to face the Japanese army, but there are also many clowns and cowards who take advantage of the situation and even make a fortune despite the national crisis.

The troops advanced all the way to the depths of Lashio, and they still saw chaos. The road was full of discarded materials and debris, and there were thick smoke and fire everywhere on both sides of the road... They were burning the supplies that the defeated soldiers were burning. From this point of view, they were quite conscientious and they could not take them away or leave them to the Japanese. They did not even intentionally throw the equipment to the Japanese like the British army.

At this time, Wang Mazi felt so distressed that the US aid materials accumulated in Lashio were 100,000 tons, and these 100,000 tons of materials were in short supply in China and were also repaid by the Chinese people in the future with hard-earned money.

But at this time, Wang Mazi was also in trouble: Should the Engineer Corps put out the fire or not? Or should they stop the defeated soldiers from setting fire or add another fire to the supplies?

For those who put out the fire, they must ensure that Lashio can be defended, otherwise the rescued materials will likely fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

Although not putting out the fire can prevent the Japanese army from obtaining supplies, the expeditionary army cannot obtain them either.

After thinking about it, Wang Mazi called out: "Radio!"

"Yes!" The radio station soldiers responded and immediately set up the radio station.

But the radio soldiers fiddled with it for a while, then looked at a bullet hole on the radio and hesitated and reported: "The group...the radio...is broken!"

"What's going on?" Wang Mazi was stunned when he heard this: "Can you fix it?"

"Maybe..." the radio station soldier replied: "But it's not that fast!"

Wang Mazi couldn't help but sigh... The Engineer Regiment was not originally the main combat force, so the only radio station of the Engineer Regiment assigned by the superiors was the only one. If it broke at this critical moment, it would mean that the Engineer Regiment would lose command.

"Quick!" Wang Mazi thought about it and ordered: "Each unit searches everywhere to see if there are any radio stations left when the command unit evacuated!"

Wang Mazi no longer wanted to find a commanding unit in Lashio. He knew that Lashio would be in such chaos, that is, the officials had already patted their butts and left.

Wang Mazi was right. The staff team, who was in charge of Lashio's representative Chiang Kai-shek, had already retreated under the command of Wei Lin.

The only thing this staff team did in Myanmar was to sit in the office and command it randomly. They knew that the Japanese army had already fought and had not yet caught fire. They even ordered the blowout of several T26 tanks on the road to block the road and hoped to stop the Japanese pursuers...

No one has ever used tanks like this, and at this time the tank was still a shortage of strategic materials in China. This treasure was not destroyed during combat on the battlefield, but was whimsical by Wei Lin, thinking that a few vehicles could be destroyed and could stop the Japanese army... Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that this is just a matter of overthrowing the Japanese engineers to the roadside in a few minutes. What it can stop was the defeated soldiers who wanted to return to China with a large amount of supplies and dream of making a fortune.

Zhang Chi was stunned when he heard the order to find a radio station. This was not a trivial matter, it almost meant that the Engineer Corps would disappear from the command system of the Expeditionary Force from then on. Simply put, it was going to do it alone.

So he immediately led his troops to search.

Other troops were looking for places with more defeated troops, but Zhang Chi was the opposite. He took a few soldiers to places with fewer people.

Zhang Chi knew that at this time the defeated soldiers were robbing supplies, so most places with a large population were transported to China to sell things at a good price, but military intelligence was just the opposite... Military intelligence was only valuable in Myanmar, and it was invalid after a certain period of time. The most important thing was that it could not be sold, so at this time, the more important things to the engineering regiment, the less no one robbed them.

Sure enough, not long after, Zhang Chi discovered a small foreign building in the center of the town, which should be the command center. There were scattered documents everywhere, extending from the office to the road outside the gate, so that the haste and panic of these officials when they retreated.

Zhang Chi led his troops in and searched. Unfortunately, he did not find the radio station. He only found a bunch of telegrams and a burning brazier in the office... It was obviously used to burn some important documents.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi felt that this was not a bad thing.

The reason was just like he thought before. No matter what Zhang Chi did after coming to this time and space, he could not change history in the end. The fundamental reason was that the information provided by Zhang Chi was actually known in history that the senior executives of the Expeditionary Force also knew that Du Yuming knew how to fight this battle, but in the end it ended in failure... So the reason for the failure was not that the Expeditionary Force did not know how to fight this battle, but because of the chaotic command system of the Kuomintang.
Chapter completed!