"Abandoning Mandalay doesn't mean that we will stop going south, we just don't waste more time here with the Japanese army. First we transferred two reserve divisions from Lashio and surrounded Mandalay, and we freed up our hands and went directly south to Yangon to control the port. After killing the 55th Division, Zhuo Fei vetoed the idea that the 1st Independent Division was eager to attack Mandalay, but directly ordered to surround Mandalay with reserves, and the 1st Independent Division, which had been replenished with supplies, acted as a forward force and continued to move south to Yangon.

If it was according to the battle plan formulated by the independent military first, the independent 1st Division that independently faced the 55th Division of the Japanese army would still need to take a short rest in Mandalay before it could continue to fight, but the current changes in the war were completely different from what Zhuo Fei and the others had predicted in advance. Although the 1st Independent Division also suffered casualties, the number of casualties was much lower than expected, and the speed of the Japanese army's movement was much lower than Zhuo Fei's expectation, so the current situation was more favorable for Zhuo Fei and his continued southward movement.

Zhuo Fei's judgment and decision came from the conclusion reached by the staff after careful consideration, and due to the strong rise of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Japan's ground forces were able to land on the US mainland to fight. At present, the only countries in the world that can lend a helping hand to China are Britain and the United States, but the British themselves are almost unable to keep their own homeland, and where will they have spare time to take care of China. The Japanese forces that landed on the west coast of the United States had also taken control of several cities on the west coast, and the Japanese cabinet did not believe that the traitorous government could continue to support China.

Now that it has been confirmed that no country will lend a helping hand to China, the plan to control Myanmar and curb China's access to supplies from the outside world is less important, and Myanmar is now a chicken rib compared to the oil- and rubber-owning South Asian countries. Coupled with the Independence Army's previous stubbornness and confusion, Yamashita sent troops from Burma and Thailand to the Philippine battlefield, and now there are only three divisions in Burma, including the 55th Division, the 13th Division, and a newly established division.

The 1st Independent Division has successfully encircled and annihilated most of the 55th Division, and the 13th Division has also been repelled by the 2nd and 3rd Independent Divisions of the joint operation. When Yamashita and his southern marching corps were fighting fiercely with the American army in the Philippines, on the outskirts of Mandalay, far away from them, Zhuo Fei discussed with the senior officers of the Independence Army, and finally came to a consensus that the mobility of the Independence Army should be brought into full play and actively seek out Japanese troops to fight.

Leaving aside the Japanese garrison entrenched in the city of Mandalay, all the Independence Army units and tens of thousands of Burmese servants transferred from Ruili were ready to go, and as the order for the general attack was given, groups of tanks and modified combat vehicles were rampaging under the guidance of planes and Burmese guides on the vast Burmese plains, as if they were in a no-man's land. On the first day of the general offensive, the armored forces cautiously advanced less than 100 kilometers, and from the second day, the speed of the armored forces had increased to 30 kilometers per hour.

The rampage of the armored troops brutally tore through the Japanese positions and defensive lines, and the subsequent motorized infantry poured in like a tide through the gaps opened by the tanks, and for the sake of the speed of the family's hard march, the independent 1st Division, which acted as the vanguard of the general attack, even their guns hung from the back of the trucks, and even in the rough fields, they could advance at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour.

Under the frenzied fire of the Independence Army's large number of automatic weapons, the Japanese troops stationed along the road were beaten to the ground, and the grass and fields were stained red with blood. The strength of the Independence Army terrified the Japanese troops in Burma, telegrams for help were sent continuously, and the Japanese strongholds on the way south from Mandalay were also continuously breached, and in the face of the powerful armored forces of the Independence Army, the Polish Air Force was completely destroyed within 48 hours, and a large number of Japanese troops could only be reduced to cannon fodder.

After five days of fighting, a large number of Japanese troops were killed, wounded or captured by the Independence Army, and the 1st Independent Division, which was the vanguard, had marched to Taungoo, only 260 kilometers from Yangon. By the time the war in Burma had progressed, all the Japanese troops heading north, including Ringanqiang, had been basically forced southward, and except for Mandalay, which was surrounded by two reserve divisions, there were no Japanese troops stationed in the entire northern part of Burma.

The total number of casualties of the Japanese army in Burma has exceeded 30,000, and among the three Japanese divisions stationed in Burma, the 55th Division has almost been killed and wounded, and has become the most shining page in the merit book of the independent first division. And the Independence Army's greatest success was not limited to that. Due to the breakthrough of tanks and the rapid outflanking of motorized infantry, almost all Japanese troops in Burma were blocked around Yangon, and the pattern of victory and defeat in the war has completely lost its suspense!

The Burmese Japanese army, which had been clamoring to go all the way north to attack southwest China, had already become dumb, and the Burmese Japanese army, which had been blocked by the independence army in the narrow strip of southern Burma, was facing defeat, and the reinforcements they had been asking for had been heard from nowhere. Zhuo Fei did not intend to leave much time for the Japanese army, after the occupation of Taungoo, Zhuo Fei immediately decided to divide the troops, and the independent 2nd Division, which did not have much opportunity to perform in the general offensive, was transferred to Pasang east of Taungoo, and once the 2nd Independent Division took control of Pasang, more than 50,000 Burmese servants using all-Japanese weapons would enter Thailand from Pasang.

"At present, the Japanese army has only one infantry wing and a small number of artillery units in Thailand, and our reconnaissance unit has entered Thailand a week ago. Once the Burmese Servant Army opens up in Thailand, we will continue to draw and form a Servant Army from Burma, and I expect to draw at least 400,000 Burmese young men from Burma to form a Servant Army to assist us in the war. ”

10 days to control the entire northern Burma, which is for all the high-ranking officers in the independent army, at this time is on the rise, hearing that Zhuo Fei is also going to form a servant army to assist in the battle, many independent army troops said that they can't understand, why give up the achievements that originally belonged to them to the servant army? "Our soldiers are precious, since someone is willing to serve as our cannon fodder troops, what else are you not happy about, our goal is to defeat the Japanese army, I just need the result, it doesn't matter how the process is."

A large number of Burmese natives were dispatched to form a servant army to attack South Asia, which involved the weeding plan formulated by Zhuo Fei, which Zhuo Fei could not tell Chen Geng in detail, especially in front of many Jewish officers. According to the Umbrella Company's statement when recruiting Servant Army soldiers, all Burmese natives who volunteered to join the Servant Army could keep 50% of all the booty captured in the battle, except for weapons and ammunition.

Fifty percent of the booty is not a small amount, after the independent 1st Division encircled and annihilated the 55th Division, it was the Burmese servant army that was responsible for cleaning up the battlefield. Weapons and ammunition are not trophies, but these Burmese servants found a lot of miscellaneous items from the corpses of Japanese soldiers, such as cigarettes, watches, pens, gold and silver ornaments, all of which could be exchanged for food and salt from the Independence Army. Moreover, Zhuo Fei promised these servant soldiers that when they fought outside Burma, the urban facilities and resources they occupied could also be converted into war trophies.

In this way, fighting can be more expensive than farming or hunting, and as long as they can capture something in battle, their families can live well in the rear. "We want to give them benefits and hope, and only in this way can we continue to pick out the cannon fodder we need from among them. There are too many natives in South Asia, and these natives are not needed by us, and the servant army is the weapon to clear these South Asian natives, otherwise our immigration plan will not go smoothly. Zhuo Fei's words would only be mentioned in front of the Chongqing high-level officials, and after hearing them, the Chongqing high-level officials all chose to forget about it.

While the Independence Army strode south, the New Army troops assembled on the front line of Shijiazhuang also launched a general attack on the Japanese puppet army in North China. With the cooperation of a large number of troops of the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army, the New First Army began to converge on the control area of the New Second Army, and the two new army units in one place ignored the air superiority of the Japanese army, and used the assault capabilities of armored troops and mechanized infantry to directly turn Shijiazhuang into an isolated city.

The people in Shijiazhuang City, which was surrounded by groups, were panicked, even if Okamura Ningji wanted to leave Shijiazhuang now, he could only take a military plane, and those traitors and wealthy businessmen who had already surrendered to the enemy were already in chaos. The Japanese army stationed in Shijiazhuang only had two infantry wings, including the Imperial Allied Army troops in Shijiazhuang City, and the number of troops that Okamura Ninji could directly command now was just over 10,000 people, but in fact, Okamura Ninji did not trust the Imperial Allied Army troops in the city.

Surrounded Shijiazhuang into an isolated city, other troops entering Hebei began a large number of movement warfare and sabotage warfare against the Japanese puppet army, and those guerrilla forces that had disappeared for a time reappeared. Relying on the information provided by the guerrilla forces and intelligence networks, the sound of gunfire can be heard every day in Hebei, while the territory controlled by the Japanese puppet army is gradually decreasing. By the time the follow-up troops of the New Army followed into Hebei and the Japanese army had transferred the Kwantung Army to fight southward, the Chinese troops had actually taken control of a large area south of Baoding and Cangzhou, and had directed their troops directly at Tianjin.