 After the fall of Rangoon, the Allies tried to make a stand in central Burma.It was hoped that the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, commanded by Luo Zhuoying and consisting of the Fifth Army (commanded by Du Yuming) and the Sixth and Sixty-sixth Armies, could hold a front south of Mandalay.The Chinese armies each had approximately the strength of a British division but comparatively little equipment.