Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, Episode

300, The Battle of Yen-Aing Yang, the Chinese, to the Rescue.

Last time, after the Battle of Prome, which came just after the Battle of Shui-Dong, both

ended its Japanese victories by April 2nd, General Slim's Burmacore, once again, retreated

to the North.

This was matched by the Chinese 200th Division, lost to the East at Tonggu by March 29.

Slim and General Stillwell had been hoping the Chinese would be able to help out at Prome

after successfully defending Tonggu, but it had not turned out that way.

So the question was, what happens now?

For Slim, he knew the answer for the British was to trade space for time.

The problem was, he was losing space fast, and now his back was touching some of the country's

valued oil fields.

The stakes were rising.

As General Slim had his men face south to once again, ready themselves, to take on the invaders,

he had after Prome 400 or so fewer men, 10 fewer tanks, 2 fewer 25 pounders, and 200 fewer

vehicles overall.

The only good news for the Allies was that their steward-byte tanks, though two week to be

used in Europe, were just right for the East and against the Japanese.

The latter only had a few weapons that could knock out a steward, which were the Type 94

75 millimeter mountain gun, a few pieces of heavy artillery, anti-tank mines, and petro

bombs.

Unfortunately, for the British, the steward's 37 millimeter main armor meant was not the

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