Chapter 197: A Bold Idea

After the retreat order was issued.

The th Division, the Independent Regiment and all other units quickly assembled, and the Senary 100th Regiment acted as the vanguard, leading at the front.

Hu Xianqun patted the comrades who had been fighting alongside him yesterday, the T-34 tank, and said, "I really can't bear to part with you!"

Hu Xianqun's tone was almost crying; these iron beasts are all treasures!

A dignified Colonel Regiment Commander actually cried in front of the soldiers.

Not to mention Hu Xianqun as the Regiment Commander, even the other tank crew members felt uneasy.

After finally acquiring an advanced tank, and only a short time after the battle ended, they were forced to abandon those tanks—truly hard to let go.

"Little brother, either we get on the tanks and our Tank Company leads at the front." Hu Xianqun was still unwilling to give up and went to Jiang Anguo.

Jiang Anguo was about to leave finally, because he still had matters to handle, including those tanks.

Jiang Anguo stepped forward and patted Hu Xianqun's shoulder, "Brother, don't worry. When you reach Lashu, I'll give you the most advanced tanks, German tanks."

Hu Xianqun gave Jiang Anguo a look of disbelief; there was nothing he could do.

"Ugh," since that didn't work, Jiang Anguo changed his wording, "Alright, brother, you see I also have T-34 tanks at Lashu; I'll give them all to you then."

Jiang Anguo had actually obtained a Tank Company from the system, equipped with T-34 tanks.

Jiang Anguo looked up at the weather; it was about to rain again, and whether the tanks could reach Taunggyi was questionable, let alone returning to Lashu.

"Really." Hu Xianqun widened his eyes.

Jiang Anguo nodded, "Really, rest assured, it's more solid than real gold; the tanks will be there."

After comforting Hu Xianqun, Jiang Anguo prepared to, once everyone had left, retrieve all weaponry and equipment from the system.

Shi Xiaomao felt the same; this was a mm Howitzer, and it was said that after withdrawal they would have to blow them all up, his heart bleeding.

"Alright, Shi Xiaomao, why are you crying? I'll give you a 155mm United States mm Howitzer later." Jiang Anguo said boisterously.

"Regiment Commander, I just can't bear it." Shi Xiaomao was unwilling, but still had to retreat.

This thing is worth more than a life; how could it be blown up?

Shi Xiaomao also knew that with the main army retreating, the howitzers were heavy, and moving them together was clearly difficult.

In fact, Jiang Anguo was only waiting until they all left to pull those weapons and equipment back into the system.

Weapons and equipment provided by the WarSystem can all be reclaimed.

That is why Jiang Anguo chose to leave last.

He glanced at the system's points, the total being.

"System, why are there so many points?" An extra nearly eight hundred thousand points appeared, leaving Jiang Anguo bewildered—what had happened?

Tonggu's Japanese Army had contributed points, bringing its total to about eight hundred thousand, but now the points had reached 1.7 million. Where did the extra points come from? Jiang Anguo hadn't realized that allied kills of Japanese soldiers also counted toward his tally; the th Division was the main force in this operation.

But now it's 1.7 million; he didn't kill that many people!

Tonggu didn't have that many Little Devils either?

Jiang Anguo watched the th Division's soldiers withdraw from Tonggu in orderly fashion, marching toward Taunggyi.

In Tonggu, Jiang Anguo also left a big gift for the Little Devils.

Watching the old banner of Tonggu city fall, a new flag was raised.

But the scent of blood in the air almost made Jiang Anguo lose his composure.

"Host, this includes Burmese People inside Tonggu, ten points per person." the system's stiff voice reported.

Killing one Little Devil yields 20 points; Burmese People are surprisingly valuable!

Jiang Anguo's eyes lit up.

But the voice sounded so enticing to Jiang Anguo; upon closer inspection, indeed this assault on Tonggu, with Burmese casualties, translated directly into 850,000 points.

"That's way too many," Jiang Anguo seemed to recall something and pressed on, "System, does that mean killing all the Burmese People also grants points?"

Jiang Anguo's idea was extremely bold.

He had a flash of inspiration, thinking the method might work; Burma's population is about 16–17 million.

Could it go even further?

"That's right, but if the system upgrades, the Host can earn more points."

Jiang Anguo immediately examined the benefits of a system upgrade; a Tier‑3 system requires one million points, and now that it was finally reached, he needed to study the upgrade carefully.

Indeed, the Tier‑3 system is equivalent to a territory system.

Within one's own territory, the larger the population, the more points are provided, but there's a problem: Chinese provide 2 points, while Burmese provide only 1 point.

It seems the system doesn't value foreigners.

Moreover, once in the Tier‑3 system, each of Jiang Anguo's soldiers can provide 4 points per day; killing a Japanese Army soldier yields 40 points, and killing a Burmese Person yields 20 points.

It appears that after upgrading, killing still yields points faster.

Of course, even without killing, one can quietly develop a place and still grow stronger.

All point rewards are doubled.

Including after Tier‑3, 1 point can be exchanged for 200 jin of food.

Jiang Anguo is now abroad, and finding Chinese is quite difficult, because people tend to live along rivers and coasts, and those seeking livelihood also develop in coastal areas; therefore, Singapore has a larger Chinese population.

Yangon also has many Chinese.

If not for the Japanese Army's invasion of Myanmar, some Burmese Chinese would have fled to Lashu, the border city between the two nations, to hide.

It seems a way must be found to transport some population out from the homeland.

Only now, after the system mentioned the territory issue, Jiang Anguo began to consider population ratios.

"System, stop the nonsense, just proceed with the upgrade!" Jiang Anguo said excitedly.

"Alright, Host."

Ding‑dong, the system upgrade completed.

After Upgrade, after deducting one million points, Jiang Anguo still has points left.

Jiang Anguo checked the number of troops he could command, from people, changed to people, which is equivalent to gaining the manpower of a full division.

In other words, after Upgrade, the system lets Jiang Anguo obtain points daily.

If it had been earlier, perhaps Jiang Anguo would consider fighting a battle with the Japanese at Tonggu, but the retreat order has already been issued, and Jiang Anguo will not do that flip‑flopping thing.

Dai Anlan's th Division has already moved to the front of the retreat column; Dai Anlan's original intention was to let Jiang Anguo go first, but he would be in the Back, which wouldn't work, and Jiang Anguo still needs to put all System Exchange weapons and equipment into the system first.

Jiang Anguo, this person, could completely reconstitute two full divisions, or three three‑regiment infantry divisions; of course, if he were more reckless, he could become a Tank division.

But now the occupied or defended areas are all mountainous terrain, completely unsuitable for Tank operations.

Of course, this counter‑offensive on Tonggu, Dai Anlan and Jiang Anguo, combined people and horses.

Adding the newly extra people of Jiang Anguo, it becomes people, facing the Japanese Army's three divisions: the 18th Division, the rd Division, and the Fifty-five Division.

The Fifty-five Division, after two Tonggu Campaigns, it's unknown how many troops remain, whether there are three thousand people in Myanmar; the division commander Zhu Nei Kuan should be able to become a Regiment Commander.

Jiang Anguo is not afraid, but worries that such reckless entry into the encirclement would, even if victorious, result in far greater losses.

The Major reason is that he feels with the Quinary Fifth Army's current combat power, it is hard to achieve a joint encirclement of Mandalay.

The strategic objective may not be reached; if the Japanese Army surrounds us at Tonggu, then it would be not worth the loss.

Since the retreat objective has been issued, the Japanese Army in Mandalay is not in a hurry either.

Therefore, we should first retreat back to Lashu, develop slowly, and can also seek more weapon and equipment aid from the United States, helping the nation achieve the final victory of the anti‑war.

ps: The GUI opened here got too big; at first I didn't anticipate that once it's big you can't write later, everyone who wants to write system text must consider the later part. The group crossing was lifted at that time—maybe because I wrote too much, politics, including three, whole, divide, establish, I have many strange characters here, just a reminder that real names cannot be used, which is also troublesome. Originally later here Myanmar just happened to have a rainy‑season ceasefire, then go to North Africa, but after looking around, Germany seems also shouldn't be something that can be written.