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Fortunately, Liu Ting was not sure, and there were channels for verification of this information, so Liu Ting did not say it out loud, just waiting for the information of Du Yuming to arrange for reconnaissance and prisoner arrest missions to be returned.

The task of capturing prisoners is relatively simple. There have been many front-line troops doing this. When fighting with the Japanese, they would catch several prisoners to interrogate them if they had anything to do. After all, the soldiers fighting on the front-line knew one thing: the Japanese were very good at playing back firepower and side-firing firepower, that is, digging a castle in places that cannot be observed in the dark. When the Chinese people launched an attack, the castle suddenly exposed its weak flanks on the charging troops and even violently fired from the back, causing a large number of casualties to the Chinese offensive troops.

Therefore, when troops like the 200th Division and the New 22nd Division attacked the positions where the Japanese army was stationed, they often arrested several Japanese prisoners to interrogate, such as whether there were any trumps, how many troops, firepower distribution, etc. Especially because the Japanese devils often have a tight mouth and some even provide false information, they often need to capture a few more prisoners to obtain accurate information. These seemingly insignificant intelligence often reduce the casualties of the Chinese team's next attack to a considerable extent.

After Du Yuming ordered it, how could the Fifth Army's divisions dared to be negligent? Not only the 200th Division and the New 22nd Division, but even the 96th Division, they caught more than a dozen prisoners in one go... In fact, this is also a blame for the Fifth Army's soldiers being too cruel to the Japanese army. They would more or less capture a few prisoners during the battle, but they did not leave one. Otherwise, it would be as simple as identifying the Japanese army's number, there would be no need to temporarily capture and interrogate the prisoners.

The result was soon released. The information on the map was correct. The Japanese army located in front of Pingmanna was indeed two divisions rather than one division that had always been thought of. Moreover, the additional Japanese division was just as indicated by the 18th Division.

When Du Yuming heard this news, he gritted his teeth. He knew that the 18th Division of the Japanese Army was a unit that participated in the Nanjing Massacre. Du Yuming had dealt with it many times on the domestic battlefield before, but he didn't expect to meet again in Myanmar.

Another verification channel will be more difficult. The Zen Plateau on the Eastern Front is complex and has a very wide area, even wider than the mid-line and western lines. It is not easy to find a Japanese division in such a wide and complex terrain without aerial reconnaissance.

But it is not difficult to say, because the map even indicates that the Japanese army would march from Luoyikao (also known as Legu) northward to Hebang, and then march through Tangzhi into Lashio... The reason why Zhang Chi knew about these and drew them on the map was that as a half-military fan, he even followed this route of the Japanese attack in modern times.

The 55th Division of the Sixth Army was stationed in Luoyikao area, so a telegram passed and ordered the 55th Division to prepare for combat and send a reconnaissance force to conduct reconnaissance.

However, the Japanese army of the 56th Division was very cunning. In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle in order to achieve the secret marching, they actually placed several squadrons in front of them, and the Japanese army dressed up as the Myanmar Independent Volunteer Army advanced first. Many reconnaissance units along the way were inexplicably defeated by these "Myanmar Independent Volunteer Army". After being defeated, they thought it was the Myanmar Independent Volunteer Army, but they didn't know that it was the Japanese army they were looking for.

However, in the end, the 55th Division discovered the traces of the Japanese army.

It was temporarily a scout from the 55th Division, and his stomach was broken and his stomach was so easy to penetrate into the bushes. After about a bag of cigarettes, he heard gunshots outside. He poked his head out and saw that his comrades who were talking and laughing had all fallen in a pool of blood. A group of Burmese dressed in tattered clothes and white chews emerged from the jungle.

Originally, the scouts thought these were Burmese Independence Volunteers, but after a while, they felt something was wrong: although the "Myanmar people" were dressed in Burmese, they clearly spoke Japanese... Although the scouts could not understand Burmese and Japanese, they could still distinguish the languages ​​of which country were.

So he quickly understood that it was the Japanese army who was dressed as Burmese and fooling people! The expeditionary army was kept in the dark from top to bottom, thinking that the Japanese army was still far away, but he didn't expect that they had already reached a place that was less than ten miles away from Luo Yikao.

The news soon reached the Expeditionary Force Command, and everyone, including Du Yuming, was shocked... This shows that the information drawn on the map is accurate, which means that the Japanese 56th Division is interspersing into Lashio.

"General Du!" Stilwell said to Du Yuming: "Immediately order the temporary Fifteenth Division to block the Japanese attack!"

Du Yuming just smiled. Stilwell's words were like a foolish talk. The 55th Division is not the 200th Division. It is just a temporary division. The equipment and quality of this division are unsatisfactory, not to mention that they still face a division of the Japanese army with one division... But this is not a fault with Stilwell. He does not understand the situation of the Central ** team, the situation of the Japanese army, and the military of Myanmar.

But then again, since Stilwell doesn't know anything about the hostilities, why should he be the commander here to point fingers?!

"It's too late!" Du Yuming said helplessly: "Luo Yikao's defeat is inevitable. Now we can only give up the Pingmanna battle and retreat to Tangji and Mei Miao's front line."

As he said that, Du Yuming turned his attention to Luo Zhuoying. He needed Luo Zhuoying, the commander-in-chief, nodded.

Luo Zhuoying thought for a while and said, "I agree to give up the Battle of Pingmanna, but I don't agree to passive defense on the Tangji line. We should accumulate strength in Mandalay with the British army and fight a big battle with the Japanese army near Mandalay!"

Hearing this, Du Yuming felt cold all over. He knew that Luo Zhuoying was still stubborn and thought that the British would really have the intention to fight the Japanese... You should know that from the Battle of Tonggu to the Battle of Pingmanna, every time the British were swearing, but soon broke their word and withdrew alone without notifying China. This can already show that the British were deceiving from beginning to end, from strategy to tactics and using the Chinese!

But what can Du Yuming say? Luo Zhuoying's trust in British and American countries can be described as "infatuation". Du Yuming has said it countless times, but he can't convince him.

But no matter what, it is most important to withdraw the Fifth Army from Pingmanna first, otherwise the Fifth Army will be trapped in the Japanese encirclement in Pingmanna.
Chapter completed!