After a day and a half, the engineering regiment arrived at Bamo.┝═┝..

Bamo is a town with 30,000 residents. Chinese people generally call it Xinjie. It is an important transportation hub in northern Myanmar. There is a road from Myitkyina to Lashio connecting the China-Myanmar Highway.

At this time, Bamo was still under the control of the British... The Chinese Expeditionary Force had been fighting against the Japanese army in southern Myanmar, and Myanmar-China, so the central and eastern fronts concessions by the British army were also in southern Myanmar and central Myanmar, while northern Myanmar was outside the plan. Before the expeditionary force set out, he never expected to retreat to northern Myanmar one day.

The one who defended Bamo was a battalion of the British and Burmese army... Rather than a battalion, it was Bamo's militia, because except for Major Rice and his two deputy, the rest of the battalion were all Burmese.

Unlike the British officials I had seen before, Major Rice and his group were very kind to the sudden engineer regiment, and even refused when the engineer regiment asked for gasoline and British ammunition.

"Before you provide supplies, I just want to know how the guns and tanks in your hands come from!" Major Rice said: "They were not stolen from the British when you killed them!"

"Of course not!" Zhang Chi replied: "They were provided by the British!"

Zhang Chi lied, of course he would not say that most of these equipment were "snatched" from the British Army of Ren'anqiang.═┝┟╞.

"Have you heard that China and Britain are allies?" Zhang Chi added: "Let's fight the Japanese together!"

Zhang Chi almost vomited while saying these words, but he could only endure it for the sake of supply and ammunition.

"Of course I heard it!" Major Rice did not doubt Zhang Chi's words: "Then I'll feel relieved. You will get what you want, and I have no reason to refuse."

Sometimes Zhang Chi thought that if Major Rice had not been maintaining Bamo's public order and had a good reputation, he might have been arrested and killed by Burmese subordinates with dissenting intentions or sent to the Japanese.

"Major, I have to remind you!" After a hearty dinner, Zhang Chi said to Major Rice: "The Japanese may be fighting here soon, you should consider withdrawing Britain! Other British troops have already done this!"

"Retreat to England?" Major Rice shook his head and said, "Maybe you don't know. I married a Burmese woman, and we still have three children, and this is my home!"

"Well!" Zhang Chi understood a little, but he felt that he should remind Rice: "But..No┠╡.? Maybe you don't know how cruel the Japanese are. You should consider taking your wife and children back to the UK!"

"Thank you for your advice!" Rice sighed helplessly: "But Britain is afraid it won't be much better. Food is scarce there and it is often bombed... After returning to the UK, I am afraid that I can't guarantee that my children will not go hungry!"

Zhang Chi was stunned. Rice was right. Britain was under the blockade and bombing of Germany at this time. For families like Rice, returning to the UK is probably not a good choice. On the other hand, the Japanese successfully deceived the vast majority of Burmese people, and even a considerable number of British people. For example, wherever the Japanese went, they would take the initiative to help the Burmese people work, give candy to Myanmar children, promote Japan's support for Myanmar, etc.

On the one hand, this made the Burmese people fully support the Japanese army to drive away the British army. On the other hand, it also made British people like Rice who had families in Myanmar believe that even if the Japanese came, it would be no big deal. After he surrendered, he could continue to live a life of full food and clothing in Myanmar.

It should be said that Major Rice is not wrong. He just wanted to simply live a peaceful life in this small town in Myanmar. It doesn’t matter whether the British or the Chinese or the Japanese or the Japanese. It’s even more acceptable to lose the major’s status and military power. All he needs is a home and can live a safe life with his family.

But the mistake is that Major Rice’s idea is somewhat inappropriate… This is a battlefield, there is no so-called peace on the battlefield, and it is not a place where Rice hopes to remain unsuspected to the world and will not hurt you if you don’t exist. Among them, the Japanese are especially the Japanese.

Zhang Chi knew that it would be useless to persuade Rice again, so he expressed his gratitude to Rice and then embarked on the road of marching again.

Later, Zhang Chi learned that like many towns, Bamo also fell into the hands of the Japanese army without a shot. Even Rice had someone pretended to be on the bridge, but he did not dare to ignite this... The reason was the same as Scott did not dare to fight in Ren'anqiang, worried that he would not have a good life after the Japanese surrender.

What the Japanese seized in Bamo was a large amount of gasoline and food stranded there by the British army. There were even several fighter jets being assembled.

From then on, Zhang Chi never saw Rice again. It is said that someone had seen him in the Japanese prisoner camp, with his wife and children... They could never find out their whereabouts again.

The Engineering Corps even knew that all this would happen after Bamo, but they had no choice but to do anything, because the Engineering Corps could not attack Bamo, which was controlled by the British army, and could not burn Bamo's supplies like the materials burned Lashio.

All the engineers could do was leave and leave all the supplies that were between eight and eight to the Japanese army.

On the way to the march, Zhang Chi began to worry a little... Will the same be true for Myitkyina?

However, when the Engineer Regiment arrived in Myitkyina with great success, there was a greater difficulty in blocking the Engineer Regiment... There was no bridge on the Inowitis River that was crossing in front of the Engineer Regiment!

This made Zhang Chi stunned. He clearly remembered that there was a steel bridge here, and he even remembered that the name of the bridge was Myitkyina Bridge. The Burmese people called it the Balaminding Bridge. It was named by the Burmese people in order to commemorate the national hero Balaminding.

But now, it is empty. Not only that, the shadow of a bridge cannot be seen far and near on the entire Inowitis River.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi couldn't help but open his mouth wide for a long time and couldn't close it... Some things exist in modern times, which does not mean that they exist in this time and space, such as the Myitkyina Bridge.

Zhang Chi's guess is correct, because the Myitkyina Bridge was built in modern times by Shanghai, China and was built in 1998.

At this time, Myanmar was the only bridge across the Inowaddy River, the Awa Bridge in Mandalay, and the bridge was blown up by the British at this time.

No wonder the first Japanese army to attack Myitkyina in history was the 33rd Division... If the Japanese army on the eastern front had to cross the Inowness River to attack Myitkyina, it was very difficult for mechanized troops.

At this time, this difficulty becomes a headache for the Engineer Corps: With so many tanks, armored vehicles and cars in their hands, how should we cross the river?? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!