"Surrounded, surrounded, we have surrounded the remnants of the 55th Division." When the news from the front reached the headquarters, a group of staff officers couldn't help cheering, as long as the remnants of the 55th Division were surrounded, the rest would be much simpler. "Order, the forward troops must surround the 55th Division to the death, first use artillery fire to knock out their remaining heavy firepower weapons, and then, let them play on their own." The command's order was very simple, that is, the 55th Division must not be allowed to return to Mandalay.

Takeuchi Kuan, who was huddled in the bunker, was awakened by the sound of cannons, and when he staggered to his feet, the ground trembled and he fell two times in a row, and the heat wave of the explosion hit him in the face one after another. "Division commander, we are surrounded!" Several officers under Takeuchi Kuan were huddled together, and before they could come in from the trench, Takeuchi Kan, who was the first to come back to his senses, shouted: "Lie down!" Lie down! ”

A cannonball struck Takeuchi's temporary command post in a ghostly manner, and Takeuchi only felt a "bang" in his head, and then a powerful force pressed him directly to the ground. The wind swept overhead, and the "hulala" dirt flew up, and the "lala" ground fell again. The "buzzing" in his ears kept ringing, and after the explosion for a while, Takeuchi Kancai, who was bleeding from his forehead, shook his dazed head and got up from the smoking mound.

The log rafters used as support in the makeshift command post fell to the ground, and not far away, where the exit of the bunker had been, lay several of his officers in a row. The remnants of the 55th Division's heavy fire positions were met with a devastating attack at the first moment, and the pursuing units of the 1st Independent Division used almost all the artillery fire at hand against them. The captured field artillery and infantry artillery were all arranged in the first wave of attacks, and the overwhelming artillery fire completely extinguished the last breath left of the 55th Division.

The 55th Division, which had been surrounded by regiments, lost the vigor it had when it first entered Burma, but as the old saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the 55th Division that was blocked in the encirclement still had at least seven or eight thousand people, which could not be eaten in one bite. The previous two battles with the 55th Division had caused the officers of the 1st Independent Division to gradually change their mode of operation, and now that the remnants of the 55th Division had been surrounded, there was no need to order his soldiers to brave the fire and force the attack.

There was no attack, only a covert advance that relied on strong firepower to cover and suppress, and the officers and men of the 55th Division, which had lost most of its heavy firepower weapons, could only choose to ignore the despicable tactics of the 1st Independent Division. Under the suppression and cover of strong firepower, the troops of the 1st Independent Division quickly broke into the defensive position of the 55th Division at a distance of less than 500 meters, and the soldiers of the 1st Independent Division, who were stepping on a scorched earth, did not give the enemy any respite, and launched close fire with the soldiers of the 55th Division.

The advantages of semi-automatic rifles were brought into full play at this time, especially in this kind of positional warfare at close range, where the soldiers of the 1st Independent Division only had to pull the trigger one after another on the Japanese soldiers who were scurrying like ants in a hot pot. The Japanese soldiers in the temporary position collapsed at the touch of a button, and the last memory of the Japanese soldiers who were hit by the rain of bullets was the big feet of the soldiers of the Independence Army.

Collapse was often contagious when everyone was in fear, and as the pace of the Independence Army soldiers' offensive accelerated, more and more Japanese soldiers collapsed and retreated, to the point that the Japanese officers could not control them. Although the soldiers of the 55th Division also regarded the Jewish soldiers as British GIs, and although they couldn't figure out how the defeated generals of the past could suddenly become so brave, any Japanese soldier with long eyes could see that their defeat was a foregone conclusion.

More and more Japanese soldiers chose to break back, but when the enemy troops appeared behind them, the last bit of perseverance in these Japanese soldiers collapsed. "We are surrounded, surrounded." Disturbances began among the terrified Japanese soldiers, who, even under the pressure of the officers, cried and cried out in fear that they would never return home.

The wound on his forehead had been simply bandaged, and Takeuchi, who had learned that the troops were about to get out of control, immediately ordered a report to be sent to the command in Yangon, asking for tactical guidance from the headquarters. Takeuchi Kuan, who was expecting to be rescued, did not know that the city of Yangon was also a mess at this time, and from the moment the 55th Division under the command of Takeuchi Kan was repulsed by the 1st Independent Division from Lashio, the two command posts of the Japanese army in Mandalay and Yangon had already been bombed by the Burmese natives.

Human bombs, which are not uncommon among the Japanese army, are just that the Japanese army's flesh bomb attacks are only limited to the battlefield, and are generally used when the troops are in trouble, while the Burmese indigenous body bombs are too much for the Japanese army to guard against. Because of the appearance of Zhuo Fei, the human bomb methods used by terrorist organizations in later generations have been advanced by decades, and the scale is incomparable to the petty fights of terrorist organizations in later generations.

The Burmese natives, who had been repeatedly brainwashed, entered the Japanese command post in broad daylight, and then detonated the bombs on their bodies in front of a group of Japanese officers, not only the Japanese command post in Mandalay was razed to the ground, but even most of their command post in Rangoon was blown up, and the Japanese officers in these two command posts suffered heavy casualties. With the beginning of the counteroffensive of the Independence Army, Burma was completely in chaos, and the 1st Independent Division had just surrounded the remnants of the 55th Division, and countless so-called Burmese independence guerrillas emerged along the way from Mandalay to Yangon.

These independent guerrillas, who claim to be part of the Burma Liberation Organization, are naturally the brainchild of the Umbrella Company, which not only helps them train their soldiers, but also provides weapons, ammunition and some funds free of charge, and these independent guerrillas only need to provide the Umbrella Company with information related to the Japanese army in Burma on a regular basis. Sneak attacks, ambushes, sabotage, these independent guerrillas were all used, and if Okamura Ninji had been here, he would have been surprised to find that the tactics used by these Burmese guerrillas were the same as those of the Chinese guerrillas in North China.

The line from Mandalay to Yangon has been completely messed up, so after Takeuchi Kan sent a signal for help, not to mention the Japanese army in Yangon, who was too late to take care of themselves, even the Japanese army in Mandalay, which was close at hand, I am afraid that it would not be able to help Takeuchi Kan for a while. "Baga, damn it, are they just watching the entire 55th Division shatter here?" After receiving the telegram from Mandalay and Yangon, Takeuchi was furious, and both Mandalay and Rangoon wanted the 55th Division to insist first.

Where can they still hold on, the current battle situation has become clear, if the 55th Division does not get reinforcements, then the only way waiting for them is complete defeat. More and more enemy troops caught up, and the temporary defensive line that the 55th Division had struggled to support became more and more flawed and porous, but no matter how the officers and men of the 55th Division remedied, the independent 1st Division, which had already gained the upper hand, was still slowly encroaching on the positions of the 55th Division in waves.

"Boom" In the flames that rose with the explosion, another Japanese machine-gun fire point was destroyed, and the agile heavy fireman of the 1st Independent Division immediately changed positions, and a few minutes later, the bazooka on his shoulder was again aimed at another Japanese machine gun. Under the joint suppression of heavy firemen and snipers, the soldiers of the 1st Independent Division lowered their bodies and alternately covered the forward assault under the command of the officer, but all the Japanese soldiers who appeared within their firing range were often beaten into a sieve by the dense rain of bullets.

The balance of victory has been tilted in favor of the 1st Independent Division, and the Japanese veterans, who knew that they had no hope of surviving, broke out into a round of crazy counterattacks, but unfortunately their counterattacks could not withstand the even more crazy barrage blockade of the 1st Independent Division. This is the difference between semi-automatic weapons and old-fashioned bolt-action weapons, and the Chinese officers in the 1st Independent Division finally had an epiphany while looking at the Japanese veterans who had been shot and fell one after another through binoculars.

The rumbling artillery had already stopped, and in the face of the 55th Division, which had been heavily surrounded, Zhuo Fei, who arrived by car, immediately adjusted his tactics. One after another, small units that pursued and routed the enemy returned to their formations, and then were pulled into the battlefield according to the battalion size to engage in close combat with the Japanese troops in the encirclement, while those units that had already fought the Japanese troops were replaced for rest. In the face of the puzzlement of Chen Geng and others, Zhuo Fei explained frankly, "The 55th Division has been cornered, and has lost most of its heavy firepower weapons, which is a good training opportunity for us. ”

From the very beginning, Zhuo Fei was not concerned about the gains and losses of Burma, he wanted the whole of South Asia, in order not to cause the sickness and accusations of Western countries, the coalition government could not provide troops to Zhuo Fei openly, and Zhuo Fei could only rely on the independence army. In the face of the entire South Asian battlefield, what Zhuo Fei needs is an iron-blooded army that can really fight tough battles and dare to fight tough battles, rather than a second-rate army that can only rely on strong firepower to support operations. Training the Independence Army into an iron-blooded army was not only Zhuo Fei's idea, but also the meaning of the Jewish Joint Council, for the sake of their great cause of restoration, the Jews also needed an iron-blooded army that had been tested by blood and fire.

The troops of the 1st Independent Division continued to rotate and launch attacks on the 55th Division in the encirclement, but as time disappeared little by little, and as the battle situation continued to advance, the officers and men of the 55th Division in the encirclement finally collapsed completely. "We won, we won." After the first white flag representing surrender was raised high in the Japanese position, another Japanese soldier raised the white flag one after another, and took the initiative to go out of the position to surrender to the soldiers of the 1st Independent Division, cheers began to sound, and the time for the curtain finally came to an end in this four-day battle.