The Chinese forces, who were responsible for covering the retreat, made their way, under the leadership of the late General Sun Li-jen, through savage and undeveloped western Burma, rendezvousing in India.
後來英軍敗退到印度；負責斷後的國軍，則由已故將軍孫立人率領，取道蠻荒未開發的緬西，進入印度會師。