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After ten o'clock in the evening, Huitong Bridge began to be lively.

Local officials such as Ruili, Mangshi, Longling, and other places, as well as wealthy businessmen and powerful people, took various vehicles, and rushed to the Nujiang River in panic.

From these people, the spy brothers guarding the bridge learned that the Japanese 56th Division appeared in Lashio like a divine weapon that fell from the sky, sneaked into the new 29th Division of the 66th Army of the Expeditionary Army stationed in Lashio. The Japanese army took Lashio in just a few hours.

This day happened to be Sunday. The Japanese army began to launch a strong offensive against the Expeditionary Force and the British army in various battlefields in Myanmar. They had been in a stalemate for nearly a month. On this day, they suddenly turned to the Japanese army and went deep into the expeditionary force in the hinterland of Myanmar. When they learned that Lashio failed, the Yunnan-Burma Highway was completely cut off, and from the highest commander to ordinary soldiers, they were panicked.

Dong Limao stood on the west bank of Huitong Bridge, looking at the officials and their families who fled in panic, and felt funny. No matter what dynasty it was, officials could always know what ordinary people could find difficult to know at the most critical moment, and they would have more opportunities than the people, including the opportunity to escape.

At about twelve o'clock in the evening, a team of American armored vehicles came. The soldiers of the spy company intercepted and conducted a routine inspection. They were actually shouted angrily by a major adjutant who got out of the car.

"I'm blind! Do you know who is sitting in the car? Why don't you give way!"

When Dong Limao heard the adjutant scolding his brother, he rushed forward, grabbed the adjutant who was shouting loudly with his left hand, punched him in the face with his right hand, and then kicked him in the stomach, kicking the adjutant to the ground.

"You are a deserter and you dare to act arrogantly in front of my brothers! Believe it or not, I will be engaged in your military law now!" Dong Limao said, taking out his pistol, loading it, and pointing it at the adjutant.

"Stop!" Another colonel got out of the car and walked to Dong Limao and said, "This is the adjutant of Commander Zhang. You, a small captain company commander, dare you be rude to your superior officer!"

"I don't care what he is! What kind of official! I only know that he is a deserter! There is no leader!" Dong Limao pointed his gun at the colonel: "You are also a deserter!"

The colonel was stunned, and was really shocked by Dong Limao's aura. He stuttered: "This is... the armored convoy of the commander of the 66th Army... you dare to be arrogant..."

"Nonsense! Commander Zhang of the 66th Army, how could he be a deserter? You dare to be a witch, I will shoot you now!" When Dong Limao heard this, he knew what was going on, but he didn't want his brothers to know about the general's escape, so he said this on purpose.

The adjutant who was kicked over by Dong Limao quickly stood up and put his head close to Dong Limao's ear and whispered: "Brother, there is indeed Commander Zhang of the Sixty-Sixth Army in the armored vehicle. You'd better not stop him. I'm for your own good."

Dong Limao sneered, and then whispered to the adjutant: "Tell the soft commander, just say that I, Dong Jiacheng, despise him! It's better not to let me see him again!"

"You...you are Dong Jiacheng..." When the adjutant heard this name, he looked up and down at Dong Limao in disbelief.

"My name, people like you are not qualified to call me, get out of here!" Dong Limao shouted angrily.

The adjutant quickly turned around and ran towards the armored vehicle.

Dong Limao spitted on the ground: "The commander took the lead in getting away from the army, what is this ** destroying the army!" With a wave of his hand, he asked the agent soldier of the spy to make his debut and pass the armored vehicle.

When the adjutant was seated in the armored vehicle, when he drove to Dong Limao, a general poked his head out and glared at Dong Limao fiercely. It seemed that the adjutant told the general that Dong Limao's words, which made him very angry, and wanted to see what kind of person dared to block his way.

Dong Limao stretched out his right hand, raised his middle finger, and gestured to the general who poked his head out, which was a salute to him.

The so-called defeat was like a mountain. After the Japanese 56th Division easily captured Lashio, the troops were divided into two groups. One was led by the commander of Watanabe Division to attack Myitkyina, a big city closest to the Chinese border in Myanmar, which was also the last city left after the fall of Myanmar. The other was led by Major General Sakata and advanced into China along the Yunnan-Burma Highway. What Sakaguchi did not expect was that it was so smooth that it was almost without any ammunition and was unobstructed.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway suddenly fell into unprecedented chaos. The Myanmar Expeditionary Force, which was formed into a division and group, retreated from the front line, and rushed back to flee. The emergency evacuated local government agencies, the common people, the Chinese and refugees in Myanmar, helped the elderly and young, mixed with soldiers. These soldiers and civilians formed a large army of escape. There were countless cars, ox carts, horse carriages and trolleys on the road, filling the road with dense crowds, and the flow of people and vehicles were mixed together, and they all moved in one direction, that is, the Huitong Bridge connecting the east and west banks of the Nujiang River.

In order to reduce traffic and logistics, and to prevent the US aid from leaving the Japanese army, the Expeditionary Force General Command ordered the destruction of materials that were not too late to transport along the road. Fires were everywhere on both sides of the road, and explosions were heard everywhere.

After the defeat of Nagato Matsushita's advance team, in order to seize the strategic Huitong Bridge, the Japanese army sent a special operation suicide squad, disguised as defeated soldiers and fleeing civilians, and rushed towards Huitong Bridge, preparing to seize the bridge.

Xiongqi needs to spend some time here to explain the situation of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army and the direction of the attack by Major General Sakaguchi.

The 56th Division of the Japanese Army, also known as the "Honshu Corps", is because most of its officers and soldiers are composed of workers from the Honshu Shipyard in Japan. These people are not only cultured and disciplined, but also have particularly tenacious willpower and their combat effectiveness is one of the few among the Japanese army. The 56th Division is actually the base of the former Kanto Army's First Division. Most of them participated in the famous "September 18th" Incident, and this army also participated in the "Nanjing Massacre". They were the unswerving beast corps. They traveled a long distance to avoid the main force and reconnaissance of the Expeditionary Force, and suddenly appeared behind the Expeditionary Force, firing the first shot of the Expeditionary Force's defeat in northern Myanmar.

The first division commander of this unit was named Masao Watanabe, who was the commander who led the entire division to break through and capture Lashio. The last division commander was named Yuzo Matsuyama.

The fast vanguard led by Major General Sakaguchi, more than 3,000 people, crossed the Sino-Myanmar border on May 2, 1942, and captured Wancheng under the cover of only ten tanks; on April 3, they captured Zhafang and Mangshi; on the afternoon of April 4, they entered Longling County.

Zhang Huang Huang's insidious commander of the Sixth Army, Gan Lichu, was actually in front of the enemy. He had so many troops in his hands. Instead, he ordered the blowout of a company of tanks to block the road. He used such a foolish method to stop the Japanese army's vanguard. As a result, the Japanese army only took more than two hours to clear the blockade of the tanks that were blown up in the bombed company.

What a pity that company of tanks!

Originally, the terrain of the Yunnan-Burma Highway was extremely dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Just send a division of troops to defend on a certain mountain road. Even if the Japanese army cannot stop the final attack, it can at least prevent the Japanese attack speed of at least a few days or even dozens or twenty days, and win more precious time for the evacuated military and civilians. However, the territory was unexpectedly chaotic. When they heard that the Japanese had fought the border, they were extremely scared and were only concerned about saving their lives. Who would volunteer to stop and kill the enemy, including those generals, who were afraid to die before they saw the Japanese.

The expeditionary force's unorganized state caused the Japanese who were attacking with a decisive belief to breathe a sigh of relief.

There were originally two divisions of the 66th Army, the General Reserve of the Expeditionary Army, along the Wancheng line, but they were driven by more than 300 kilometers in four days by the Japanese army of Sakaguchi, a team of more than 3,000 people.

This record can be regarded as a miracle of defeat in the history of China's War of Resistance!

The rapid and smooth advancement of the Japanese army was not only beyond the expectations of the Expeditionary Army General Command and Commander Jiang of Chongqing, but even far exceeded the estimates of Japanese commanders Masao Watanabe and Sakaguchi.

What’s funny is that just as the Japanese convoy drove into the streets of Mangshi, the traffic police standing in the middle of the street were still making gestures. When the traffic police suddenly realized something was wrong, they ran away!

Victory inspired the unstoppable Japanese soldiers.

Commander Sakaguchi, who was full of confidence, was determined to continue his efforts and create a miracle of driving Japanese tanks into the "any possible area" in China. He was convinced that no one could stop his advance now, and there was only one barrier in front of him, that is, the world-famous Nujiang Bridge. As long as you take down Huitong Bridge, everything is possible!

So Sakaguchi sent hundreds of people from his fast column to disguise themselves as expeditionary forces and civilians, preparing to capture the Huitong Bridge.

Dong Limao's spy company took on the arduous historical task of stopping Major General Sakaguchi from trying to drive the tank to any place that can be reached in China.

However, Dong Limao really didn't know how to identify the members of the Japanese fast column. Although he knew that such a unit would follow the footsteps of Nagachi Matsushita's wild wolf suicide squad's "pangolin" operation and come to die, but he could not find these hundreds of people from hundreds of thousands of fleeing military and civilians.

Therefore, Dong Limao ordered Brother Lian, a spy who guarded the bridge, to ask loudly about the crowd passing through the bridge. As long as you don’t understand the accent, you will be pulled out by the spy soldiers to interrogate. Among them, a small number of refugees escaped from Myanmar. Gou Hao played a great role in it. If it weren’t for him, some refugees would probably not be able to pass through Huitong Bridge and would even be killed by accident.

In the tense atmosphere, Dong Limao sent off a group of dispersed soldiers and civilians on the west bank of Huitong Bridge. In addition to finding out the people from the Japanese fast column of Huitong Bridge, he also had something that worried him, that was, the person who took photos of his great-grandfather never appeared, which made him a little anxious. That was a photo he had been looking forward to with his life. For this photo, he fell into the big explosion pit and traveled to this era. Although he has adapted to this war environment, this photo is indispensable. He has to rely on this photo to return to his real world in two years, otherwise he would really die on Songshan.

At noon on May 1st, Dong Limao was wearing the captain's uniform and stood in front of the sandbag fortress on the left side of the west bank of Huitong Bridge, blocking the dazzling sunshine with his right hand, looking up at the towering Songshan, thinking to himself: Do I really want to follow my grandfather's footsteps and die here?

"Company Commander Dong, why are you here?" A woman's scream came into Dong Limao's ears.
Chapter completed!