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The reason why Zhang Chi intentionally disclosed this information to Ding Lun was first to teach the British a lesson.

It can be imagined that after Ding Lun obtained these valuable information, he would definitely pass them on to the Myanmar Independent Volunteers to seek credit or make up for the mistakes. The Volunteers would definitely transfer the information to the Japanese army, so there is no need to mention what happened next... Originally, the Japanese 33rd Division was still a little afraid of the more than 40,000 well-equipped British troops on the Western Front. You should know that it was the British army with an armored brigade and it was also defense. The biggest shortcoming of the Japanese army was the lack of anti-armored weapons. Therefore, according to common sense, the more than 20,000 Japanese troops of the 33rd Division could not break through the British defense line.

But it would be different if you knew that the British army was unintentional to fight, and you also knew that the British armored brigade and a large amount of equipment had already retreated to Ren'anqiang first. The Japanese army, which lacked heavy equipment, would not be polite to the British army. Of course, you had to find a way to save the batch of equipment located in Ren'anqiang. Especially Ren'anqiang is still a large oil field, which would kill two birds with one stone for the Japanese army.

In fact, history has developed in this way. A gang of Japanese troops from the 33rd Division interspersed into Ren'anqiang to encircle more than 9,000 British troops and armored troops there and could not move... This matter seems strange on the surface. How could the Japanese army with more than 3,000 people surrounded the British army with more than 9,000 well-equipped such as tanks, heavy artillery, etc.?

In fact, it is not surprising. The reason is just as the British armored regiment chose to give up tank breaking through at Tongguwajie Bridge before, the British mechanized troops relied heavily on highways, and the infantry did not dare to enter the jungle to fight the Japanese army. Therefore, the Japanese army only needed to penetrate the highway, ferry and bridges in front, and the British army of more than 9,000 people could not walk and wait for surrender.

The reason why this British army was able to escape was because the Expeditionary Force sent troops from the new 38th Division, Sun Liren, to rescue them. It was precisely because of knowing this that Zhang Chi knew that the British armored troops would retreat to Ren'anqiang.

However, what would have happened in history, why did Zhang Chi try his best to let Ding Lun report the news again?

Zhang Chi has his own reasons.

The key to this is that after the British army fled, it blocked the news of China. Even its commander Alexander vowed to fight to the death with the Japanese army to the end... It was not until two days later that the Chinese side realized that the British army had long given up on the Western Front and fled. At this time, the Chinese Expeditionary Force arranged in Pingman Na once again lost the best opportunity to retreat under the lies of the British, so it not only suffered heavy casualties but also caused the subsequent war to fall into a full passive passiveness.

Zhang Chi's idea was: Since the retreat of the British army is inevitable, then... we cannot stop the British army from retreating, but we can let the British army retreat be known in advance by the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

As for why the Chinese Expeditionary Force knew in advance, it depends on whether the Japanese army would send troops to Ren'anqiang in advance after receiving the news from Ding Lun. At that time, the British army was blocked and Ren'anqiang wanted to ask the Chinese Expeditionary Force for help, so naturally they would not be able to block the news of their retreat.

Another very important thing is that the British army has always used various excuses to not provide supplies and gasoline for the expeditionary forces, but the British army has never dared to do this since the Battle of Ren'anqiang.

There are two reasons for this:

First of all, the Battle of Ren'anqiang was the British begging the Chinese Expeditionary Force to rescue their army. The British army had no choice but to find excuses to refuse.

Secondly, more importantly, of course, the British army realized that they had shot themselves in the foot.

Originally, they thought that they could retreat safely as long as they used some tricks to keep the Chinese behind and block the knife for them. In this case, they were unwilling to provide China with any supplies. It would be better that the Chinese would be beaten even worse by Japan, so that the British would not be blind.

But unexpectedly, the Japanese would use a roundabout way to intersperse this move at a speed that the British army could not imagine and blocked their way... If the Chinese were defeated at this time, it would be impossible for them to take their hands to save the British army, so they would not dare to neglect their supplies for their own lives.

So... the supply problem of the Engineering Corps was solved.

That is to say, there may be three benefits to doing so:

First, teach the British a lesson and let out a sigh of anger for the Chinese soldiers;

The second is to expose the fact that the British army retreated early in advance and buy two days or even longer for the next deployment of the Expeditionary Force;

The third is to allow the British army to provide supplies to the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Of course, doing this may have hurt a little. In fact, more British people were surrounded by the Japanese army and benefited the Chinese expeditionary force. But there is a saying that goes, "You are unkind, I am unrighteous." The British stabbed us Chinese in the back, and we would not be polite to you!

Thinking of this, Zhang Chi no longer hesitated. He immediately stretched his back and ordered: "The brothers are tired all the way. This warehouse is pretty good. Take the time to find a place to rest. When the troops come up, I am afraid there will be no such a good opportunity!"

"yes!"

"yes!"

...

The soldiers responded and immediately found their own places in the warehouse.

Speaking of which, the Engineer Regiment was reconnaissance and breaking the road, busy during the day and at night, and after a few days, they could only rest when the main force passed by loading explosives on bridges or highways. They were so tired that they were very tired. It was rare to find this warehouse, which was a safe and cool place. Not long after they lay down, they all snored loudly.

Zhang Chi was also tired, but he forced himself to sleep. He didn't want Ding Lun to have a murderous intention while they were asleep... At that time, Zhang Chi would have to pay his life.

However, Ding Lun may have been afraid of waking up other people, or because he was injured and unable to do anything else, so he just looked around for a while, and when he saw everyone asleep, he got up and walked to the door of the warehouse and told his fellow villagers who were on duty to get rid of the move.

Of course, the fellow villagers did not doubt it. The platoon leader wanted to let him go just now and he didn't even go. Besides, how far he could run if he had an injury on his leg, so he let him go without thinking.

After waiting for a while, Ding Lun didn't come back. The fellow villagers felt something was wrong and hurried to Zhang Chi while shaking and shouting: "Platform leader, wake up, Ding Lun may have escaped!"

"Oh!" Zhang Chi replied: "Just run away!"

"What?" The fellow villagers became confused when they came.

"It's worth your whistle!" Zhang Chi replied impatiently: "I know this, don't worry about that!"

"Yes!" The fellow villager responded, but he was still worried. He was about to ask the matter clearly, but he saw that Zhang Chi had turned over and fell asleep.
Chapter completed!