Under the order and pressure from all sides, Shinichi Tanaka had to send his main force out of Mandalay to reinforce Lashio.

But Shinichi Tanaka was very careful and asked the 18th Division Search Corps to stay in Mandalay for garrison.

The so-called search wing is a unique organization in the Japanese army.

Simply put, the search wing was developed by the Japanese cavalry unit... The Japanese army had previously commonly seen cavalry or cavalry brigades in infantry. Most of the soldiers of these cavalry or cavalry brigades were selected from the infantry in the division, as the division's reconnaissance force and rapid commando.

It is conceivable that the Japanese cavalry trained in this way are very powerful in combat, and they can even compete with each other to defeat the Cossack cavalry in the Russo-Japanese War.

However, with the development of war, cavalry is becoming less and less suitable for modern wars... The battle between cavalry and cavalry will basically not occur, and even if there is one, it is unlikely to fight for a saber. Instead, there will be a row of guns and bullets when facing infantry. Cavalry is even more of a nightmare when facing infantry. Infantry only needs to set up a few machine guns to cause heavy casualties and injuries.

As a result, the Japanese cavalry corps gradually developed towards mechanized troops, and horses became cars, armored vehicles and tanks, and their tasks and responsibilities were still to serve as the most elite force in the division as the reconnaissance force and rapid commando.

Such troops are called "search wings" or "search brigades" among the Japanese army.

Tanaka Shinichi left this unit as the search wing of the 18th Division. Of course, his intention was to leave the most elite troops to station in Mandalay, but I don’t know whether this action was right or wrong.

Let's say it, the Search United's performance in Mandalay is indeed outstanding, after all, they are the elite of the Japanese elite division.

Let's say it is wrong. The search wing is a mechanized unit. Its biggest advantage should be high mobility. Letting such an army stay and defend the city would be equivalent to having elite cavalry in ancient times but choosing to dismount and fight in the field.

Of course, Stilwell and others didn't know about this. When they learned that the main Japanese army stationed in Mandalay was transferred to Lashio, the entire command center couldn't help but feel jubilant.

"Good job. General!"

"When the fight was beautiful, I easily transferred the Japanese in Mandalay!"

...

Staff members in the office congratulated Stilwell.

"No!" Stilwell replied thoughtfully: "This credit should be counted on the Chinese battalion commander!"

"Joe!" At this time, Alexander's figure appeared in front of Stilwell.

"Alex?!" Stilwell was stunned when he saw Alexander. He had a premonition that this guy was not good at coming.

"Is there anything you have?" Stilwell asked, "If nothing is wrong..."

Stilwell spread his hands: "I'm busy, you know. There's going to be a big battle to fight!"

Stilwell was issuing an order to expel guests, and he did not want to cause trouble at this time.

"Of course!" Alexander said while giving up a British officer behind him: "Let me introduce him, this is Major General Rice, the commander of the 36th British-Indian Division!"

"General!" Rice stood in front of Stilwell and greeted a standard military salute.

Stilwell looked at Rice, then looked at Alexander, a little confused about what Alexander meant.

"Oh!" Alexander pretended to be enlightened and slapped his head and said, "Look. We are confused in Impal. We didn't inform you of such an important thing. This is my fault!"

"What's the matter?" Stilwell asked Alexander with an unhappy face.

"That's right!" Alexander explained: "General Mountbatten knew that you were going to launch an attack on the Japanese army to break the siege of Impal. He was worried that you were short of troops, so he asked me to bring the British-Indian 36th Division to help you! I think we will cooperate happily on the battlefield!"

Stilwell couldn't help but snorted coldly when he heard this: "Are you doing the first Battle of Myanmar?"

"That was forced by the situation!" Alexander spread his hands: "The situation is completely different now, isn't it?"

Stilwell didn't say anything else, but he knew very well that this British force was explicitly here to reinforce the Sino-US coalition forces, but in fact it was here to monitor the Sino-US coalition forces from letting the Sino-US coalition forces steal their colonies.

At the same time, Stilwell still secretly hated in his heart: Why does a British division come to the front line, his commander-in-chief will not hear any news? What happened to Adam, who is in charge of logistics?!

But this is actually no wonder Adam at all. The reason is that everyone knew that Britain was an ally at that time. Moreover, the British and Indian divisions' uniforms were the same as those of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and to a considerable extent, the British and Indian divisions were provided by the British and Indian divisions, so the British and Indian divisions easily drove all the way to the front line.

This also verifies the saying: "Defend day and night, but it is difficult for a family to defend against thieves."

Although Stilwell was not happy about this situation, he still had no choice but to deal with Alexander, because he could not have a strife with the British at this time, otherwise the supply of the Chinese army would soon have problems.

But next, the strategic plan will definitely be affected.

Sure enough, when Alexander knew that Stilwell wanted to command the Chinese army to attack Yangon along the Irrawaddy River, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Joe, I will never agree with doing this. We should cross the Irrawaddy River after taking Mandalay. This way, we can easily resolve the siege of Irrawaddy. I really don't understand why we should do this more..."

"Oh. Is that?" Stilwell retorted: "Do you know how many Japanese troops are on the west bank of the Irrawaddy River? Nearly seven divisions, are you asking the Chinese army to cross the river and be surrounded by the Japanese? You used this method to rescue the siege? Let the Chinese die so that the Japanese can retreat from Impal?!"

"No, no..." Alexander replied: "As long as the Chinese army attacked the Irrawaddy River, they can attack the Japanese army from the rear of the Japanese army with the British army in Impal. You know, the Japanese army is exhausted after fighting in Impal for so long. If there are Chinese troops attacking from the back, they can easily defeat these three Japanese divisions! Those are the three Japanese divisions, Qiao! If this is done, the Japanese will be greatly damaged, which will consume a lot of the Japanese troops! We can do this easily, why do we still have to attack Yangon?!"

Alexander's words are indeed somewhat convincing, especially the fact that "depletes a lot of Japanese troops" is exactly what the United States hopes.
Chapter completed!