After that, half of the troops of the Fifth Division, which were supposed to stay in the rear to protect the flank, under the command of Seishiro Itagaki, swept through Shanxi and fought against the more than 200,000 troops of Yan Xishan in China's Second Theater at Xinkou, and there was a danger of being encircled. The pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info Terauchi Shouyi flew to the front line of Xinkou to supervise the battle, and ordered the 20th Division to march west along Zhengtai Road and attack Niangzi Pass to flank Taiyuan, the battle went very smoothly, and the 20th Division successfully broke through Niangzi Pass and approached Taiyuan along Zhengtai Road. Immediately, the Fifth Division broke through the Xinkou position and formed a north-south flank attack on Taiyuan.

Within a few days, the locust army set up a formation of north-south flanking and began to storm Taiyuan, and it took only three days for the locust army to defeat the Fu Zuoyi Department of the Seventh Group Army of the Kuomintang and occupy Taiyuan. Terauchi Shouichi was not satisfied and continued to move south.

He ordered his troops to make a surprise attack on Jinan, crushing Han Fuqu's troops, and then ordered the Fifth Division to land in Qingdao and take the two important towns of Jinan and Qingdao, and Shandong was under the control of the North China Front of the Locust Army.

After the locust army went south to fight, he took command again, and did not fail in his mission, swept through Southeast Asia in three months, defeated the Miffy coalition army, the British army lost their armor, and the blood flowed like a river, and even once forced the Chinese expeditionary force to the end, only one step away, the locust army can defeat the expeditionary force and take the whole of Burma into the bag.

At that time, Shouichi Terauchi was so wise and high-spirited, even he thought that he was possessed by Amaterasu and was invincible, and he would lead the locust army warriors to sweep the world and complete the great cause of the empire to dominate the world, and he would also become a well-deserved god of war.

Who knows, everything with the arrival of Jiang Haoran, his good dream came to an end, the first battle, the battle of western Burma, the locust army lost more than 100,000 troops, so that Jiang Haoran's expeditionary force successfully gained a foothold in western Burma.

And this battle, Terauchi Shouichi is even more cautious, careful deployment, mobilization of elite soldiers and strong generals, originally thought that revenge was in sight, annihilation of Jiang Haoran's troops was only in this battle, who knew that his wishful thinking not only did not start, but now the two armies and six divisions will face the danger of annihilation, the accusation of the base camp is still secondary, and the real injury is the pride of Terauchi Shouichi.

"Temple-kun, is there really no other way, and the locust army is left with only one way to take the Shan Plateau? You know, in this vast primeval forest, there are countless jungle killers, and after hundreds of thousands of locust warriors enter, I really don't know how many are left? Lieutenant General Tsukada, chief of staff of the Japanese Southern Army, finally broke the silence and said with an expression of infinite pain.

Terauchi Shouichi rolled his eyes and looked at Tsukada Tsukashi, and said contemptuously, "Don't go to the Shan State Plateau? Wow, why don't you come out with a better way? ”

Tsukada's face immediately flushed, and he lowered his head in shame.

Terauchi Shouichi probably also felt that this was a bit choking, and said to himself: "This plan has been approved by the base camp, so there is no need to think about it anymore, my locust warriors are the strongest troops in the world, we should believe that they can conquer the Shan Plateau, and we can only do a good job of dealing with the aftermath for today's plan, hold on to Mandalay, and wait for the next attack." ”

Tsukada raised his head and said suspiciously: "Next attack?" Now that the expeditionary force has joined forces with the western Yunnan troops, and the Yunnan-Burma highway is about to be opened by them, does the locust army still have a chance to win? ”

"As long as Mandalay and Yangon Harbor are still in the hands of the locust army, the Yunnan-Burma Highway will not be unblocked, even if they occupy northern Myanmar and western Burma, but there is an Inouaddy River in the middle, and there is no bridge open to traffic upstream at all, how many materials can they transport over?" Without trains and automobiles, there is no way to solve the dilemma of material shortage. ”

"Will they continue to attack Mandalay next?"

"Yes, definitely, so I transferred the 2nd Division, the 18th Division, and the 1st Guards Division back to Mandalay, and the base camp also planned to transfer another ten divisions to Burma, and they would arrive within ten days."

"Yo Xi, in this way, the locust army still has a chance to drop." Tsukada nodded, a glint flashing in his eyes.

"The predicament is only temporary, victory will belong to the locust army after all, the reason why Jiang Haoran won by luck is that their weapons have been ahead of the locust army, and it is by no means that the locust army warriors are incompetent, now the technology of the helicopter has been overcome by the locust army, and the missiles will also enter the production workshop, and even the incendiary bombs used by Jiang Haoran on the Songshan battlefield, our military experts have already had a plan to conquer with the description of the soldiers' battlefield, with the production capacity of the empire, these weapons will soon be put into the battlefield, and at that time, the time for the full-scale counteroffensive of the locust army will come."

Terauchi Shouichi's words undoubtedly gave the staff officers present a shot in the arm, they straightened their waists one by one, and their faces began to regain their confident looks, but whether everything is true as Terauchi Shouichi said, I'm afraid only God knows.

In the evening, Lashio, the temporary headquarters of the expeditionary force cave.

After reconnaissance by reconnaissance planes and scouts, Jiang Haoran had determined that the Japanese army's retreat was correct, and learned that the Japanese army Tada Junbu did not go to Wan Town, but turned to Sister Mu halfway, Jiang Haoran also instantly understood the intentions of the Japanese army, but he did not expect that the ultimate goal of the Japanese army was to enter the Shan State Plateau and attempt to withdraw to Siam (Thailand).

In fact, in this world, except for Jiang Haoran, no one knows how terrifying the jungle is to the army, when more than 50,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force entered the Savage Mountain, only three or four thousand escaped with all beards and tails, less than a fraction.

The expeditionary force escaped because of Jiang Haoran's appearance, and no one thought that the Japanese army would actually carry this catastrophe on their shoulders, and the Japanese army wanted to kill itself, of course Jiang Haoran would not stop it.

Because the Songshan Highway had not yet been completed in time, the attack of the New Third Division and the New Fifth Division did not go all out, and they were still nailed to the junction of the 55th Division and the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army.

The First Army in the direction of Longling and the 71st Army in the direction of Tengchong also reduced the intensity of their attacks, but they still pressed forward step by step, driving the pigs into the circle.

Two days later, the remaining 100,000 men and horses of the 15th and 16th armies of the Japanese army blew up all the heavy equipment that could not be taken away, and entered the Shan Plateau in an all-round way, beginning to move towards a road of no return.

At this point, the month-long campaign in northern Burma was over, and at the cost of more than 100,000 casualties of the expeditionary force, nearly 100,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, forcing more than 100,000 Japanese troops to flee to the Shan Plateau, and an absolute victory was achieved.

On October 1, Jiang Haoran led a group of staff officers and generals, in front of the newly repaired martyrs' cemetery, in a salute, to the fallen soldiers to give a heavy military salute, for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, for this suffering nation, nearly 100,000 expeditionary soldiers and overseas Chinese, Chinese rest here, they used their lives to interpret the golden iron horse, the pride of the unyielding nation in the eventful years, the soul of the nation, they are immortal!

On October 2, the new third division was stationed in Mujie.

On 3 October, the New Fifth Division was stationed in Parents' Father and Father and Ruigu, across the river from the expeditionary force.

The special operations division took over the defense of Lashio in an all-round way, and a brigade of Liu Bao was stationed in Xibao, which became the first line of defense.

The new 38th, 49th, 28th, 29th, and 93rd divisions were all disabled, and the most serious 38th Division had only more than 1,300 people left, and the other four divisions combined were more than 12,000 people.

The Airborne Brigade also suffered heavy casualties, with less than 2,000 troops left in the brigade, and John Williams's Marauder Detachment fought only about 800 men.

Therefore, these troops will return to Yingduo to recuperate, Jiang Haoran did not cancel their number, after experiencing several battles in western Burma and northern Burma, these troops have been branded with his Jiang Haoran, as long as there is one person left in a division, over time, they will still be a howling army, and they can still fight tough battles, because their spirit has been injected into Jiang Haoran's soul.

Of course, the Marauder troops belonged to the British army, and Jiang Haoran naturally did not need to be responsible for the replenishment, and General Alexander would naturally solve this problem.

As for Aung San's Burmese Independence Army, it played a logistical role in this campaign, although the casualties were not very large, but it was also indispensable, Jiang Haoran gave Aung San five divisions, each division 10,000 people, all weapons and equipment were provided by the expeditionary force, and even the troop training was also drawn from the special operations division to take charge of the backbone, moreover, the two divisions that Yingduo has formed will be included in the establishment of the Aung San Independent Army, they will assist the Chinese troops to defend the city, and at the same time take charge of law and order in the jurisdiction.

In this regard, Aung San was grateful, and praised the expeditionary force as a real benevolent and righteous army, when they followed the Japanese army, they have always served as cannon fodder, but Jiang Haoran even when the battle was the most brutal, still did not use them, so that their nearly 10,000 troops were almost all preserved.

The casualties were caused by the Japanese army in the early stage when they pressed them to deal with the expeditionary force, and Aung San was still uneasy about it, but Jiang Haoran did not mention it again at all, showing infinite generosity, and made Aung San feel that choosing to cooperate with Jiang Haoran was the wisest choice, and he also saw the strength of the expeditionary force from this battle, and firmly believed that the future of Burma could only depend on the Chinese army.

Wu Chaowen was officially appointed as the chief of staff of the special operations division, Chu Zhongtian was happy about this, but Chen Feng, the commander of the 93rd division, had a lot of complaints, their division had already been disabled once in the hands of Lu Guoquan, and this time it was more serious than the last time, although Jiang Haoran promised to give him the best source of troops, but after all, he was a new soldier, and his combat effectiveness would inevitably decline, and now he had poached his most powerful chief of staff, which made him think about it.

But in the next second, Chen Feng was overjoyed, because Jiang Haoran decided to include the independent regiment of the 66th Army into their division, that is, Tian Long's independent regiment.

Since the last time the Hukang River Valley successfully blocked the Japanese army, Tian Long obtained the right to give priority to the selection of new soldiers, and supplemented many veterans drawn from the Hurricane Column, after nearly half a year of training, this time he was responsible for the task of garrisoning the Myitkyina airfield with the 55th Division, almost unscathed, with them joining, his 93rd Division will become the fastest recovery division among the several divisions this time, and the mallet will be unhappy.