Chapter 048: Attack
The great victory of the Air Force was immediately reported, and both Chongqing and the Air Force Headquarters and the Expeditionary Force Headquarters were all overjoyed and celebrated. With almost no losses, he destroyed two enemy ports, more than a dozen merchant ships, and nearly 100 aircraft, and countless supplies, and at the same time, many devils died in air raids, and many of these devils were technical troops, and the Japanese lost them, and they couldn't get together for a while.
And the expeditionary force is undoubtedly the happiest, and the victory in the first battle is undoubtedly morale-boosting, which means that they will not be hit by devil planes in these two days.
And Wang Hanzhang reminded that Japan has a large number of poison gas bombs, don't take it lightly, the situation is not right, immediately wear gas masks, and officers at all levels are also reminding the soldiers below that everyone has suffered from devils, so they all have experience.
The expeditionary force began to attack at half past seven, because the devils also built perfect fortifications and were heavily garrisoned, so the expeditionary force did not use a sneak attack, and this time the expeditionary force planned to attack the Japanese army in a dignified manner.
The expeditionary force is first covered by fierce artillery fire, and the expeditionary force in the trenches looked at the enemy's position covered by fire, and felt a fierce pride, before this, the objects of the artillery fire were themselves, and now they finally raised their eyebrows, but the devil still had a lot of artillery fire to the position of the expeditionary force.
The first line of the Japanese army is the indigenous army, which is used by Japan in order to prevent the expeditionary force from sneaking attack, as a buffer, the Japanese army will not arrange too much artillery fire on this line, so basically the enemy army on the opposite side is pressed and beaten by the artillery of the expeditionary force, and whenever the devil has artillery, it is killed by the artillery of the Chinese expeditionary force.
Half an hour after the artillery bombardment, the planes that did not participate in the bombardment of Rangoon and Mawlamyine were late, but they soon bombed the enemy's positions, and dozens of planes dropped a large number of bombs and incendiary bombs on the enemy's requisitioned ground, and the incendiary bombs separated the front and rear lines of the Japanese army.
Wang Hanzhang's later generations have seen many expeditionary forces fighting Burma, as well as the experience summarized by the U.S. military fighting Japanese troops in the Pacific, which has long been taken out by Wang Hanzhang at this time, and the expeditionary force is also targeted training.
The Japanese army is known as a groundhog, and especially likes to hide underground, but in the case of lack of weapons and ammunition, it is not a good way, and it is also fatal to deal with countries that do not have heavy weapons or lack heavy weapons.
The Burmese Independence Army and the Thai Army on the front line have seen such battles, and the Chinese artillery shells have been shelled for half an hour as if they don't want money, and there are planes bombing indiscriminately in the sky.
Mario is a second lieutenant platoon commander in the Thai army, he participated in the attack on Jingdong before, although he failed, but at that time he felt that although the squadron was powerful, it lacked ammunition and troops, and the current expeditionary force was simply a world of difference.
Half an hour, either artillery bombing or aircraft strafing bombing, he saw with his own eyes that many of their colleagues were torn apart by the bomb, turned into powder, and many people were burned to death by the fire, the fire could not be extinguished no matter what, he was very frightened, the figure of the squadron was not seen, he had lost most of it, but the Japanese army gave a death order, if they dared to retreat, what was waiting for them was the bullets of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army also threatened that if they escaped or joined the enemy, then their families would be killed, So the Thai army, after the people who began to flee were killed, did not dare to run anymore.
At 8:05, Mario felt a strong tremor in the ground, and looked up to see a dozen tanks, followed by a large number of infantry.
That's right, what he saw was the 200 divisions under Dai Anlan's 88th Army, which was still a mechanized division, and was now equipped with Sherman tanks, which were much stronger than the previous old tanks, faster, more powerful, and more superior in performance.
The remnants of the Thai army and the Burmese Independence Army watched the tanks of the expeditionary force and the large number of infantry following behind, and the expeditionary force fired bullets and shells at their positions from time to time. From time to time, planes in the sky strafed their positions.
Looking at the remnants of the Japanese warlords, there are no more warlords in many places, the Thai army and the Burmese Independence Army surrendered decisively, and if they don't surrender, it will be over, and those half-dead Japanese troops who were bombed wanted to stop them, and they were immediately killed.
The natives did not believe that they could hold it now, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force had completely occupied the Japanese indigenous defense line without much fighting before 10 years.
At the beginning, Yamashita Fengwen put the indigenous people in front mainly because Burma burned and looted in the occupied areas because of the nature of the Japanese army, and restored its animal nature, the Burmese people have completely disgusted the Japanese army, and the Burmese Independence Army has also quickly split, some people have become Burmese traitors in order to survive, and they have completely become Japanese lackeys, and some of them have rebelled, but they have been suppressed, because they have too few people, and they originally wanted to wait for the squadron to fight and then take the opportunity to revolt, but Yamashita Fengwen didn't know what they thought, Many of the Burmese traitors in Burma have gone.
Japan has discounted the slogan of supporting the establishment of the Burmese state, so it is inconvenient for Yamashita to clean up these Burmese, the big war is imminent, he does not want chaos, if the Burmese are completely directed to the expeditionary force, then the situation in Japan will be even more critical, so Yamashita Fengfu wants to send the Burmese Independence Army to the front, so that the unarmed Burmese are unlikely to make a big mess.
Put on the front line can borrow the hands of the Chinese to destroy them, the same is true for the Thai army, Japan did not directly annex Thailand because Thailand is very obedient, Japan will endure it, and wait until China is defeated, when Thailand is not captured.
At dark, the Eastern Route Army of the Expeditionary Force attacked 20 miles south from Leigu along the Nu River (Salween River on the Thai-Burmese border). The Central Route Army attacked thirty miles south from Donghu, but they were still attacking at night. The Western Route Army fought south along the Irrawaddy River and the railway.
Three days later, on November 7, the Western Route Army of the Expeditionary Force attacked to the main forces of the Japanese army in Zhiguang and Miaowang, while the Central Route Army attacked Biaoguan on the west bank of the Xidang River, and the Eastern Route Army attacked to Kyaukji on the east bank of the Xidang River. Further south was the defensive area of the main forces of the Japanese army, and these places were full of rivers and were not conducive to the attack, especially for the squadron.
Yamashita was called the "Malay Tiger", indicating that he was not only fierce but also resourceful. After the failure of the first expedition to Burma, Yamashita had already preliminarily predicted the future battlefield situation in Burma in light of the international situation, especially after the defeat in the two naval battles and the Battle of Kuah Island, Japan lost its superiority and was forced to switch from strategic offensive to defensive.
Yamashita has studied the United States, a country of immigrants, and people are generally afraid of death, so China's big victory on the battlefield, they feel that China can take on more tasks, so that the United States will have fewer deaths, and the United States will definitely support China with supplies, then China's materials will be very abundant, and they will not be afraid to fight a war. Yamashita Fengwen is an understanding person, although he doesn't want to admit it, but he still knows in his heart that if the squadron is equipped with the same equipment as Japan, then the squadron will not be much weaker, if there is sufficient training, plus weapons and equipment superior to the Japanese army, it will be a nightmare for the Japanese army, and Japan can't fight China at all.
He didn't know what the Japanese top brass thought, but he now knew that the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean had occupied a disadvantage, unless there was a way to kill the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, then Germany would be contained in the Atlantic, and Japan and the United States would have equal strength in the Pacific, but with the powerful industrial strength of the United States, at most half a year later, the United States would have countless warships, but Japan did not, so for Japan to destroy the United States unless there is a way to log on the US mainland and destroy their production, but according to the current situation, it is impossible.
If Burma fails this time, then Japan may not have too much strength to organize a general war again, if it is small, it will not work at all, Japan's resources are too small, the most important thing is that there are too few people, and those who are suitable for serving as soldiers are basically recruited, and now the people who produce domestically, urban women and child laborers, and the elderly. If there were so many people in China, Japan would not be what it is today.
After thinking about it, Yamashita believes that the key to Japan's small population is that Japan has a small territory and many disasters, so it can't afford to support so many people, so successive Japanese rulers have longed for the mainland.
Thinking of the best opportunity in history, because China has never been so weak, Yamashita Fengfumi burned a raging fire in his heart, but when he thought of the current war situation in Asia, which was not good for Japan, he thanked him, like a flower. Missed this opportunity, I don't know when I will wait in the future, or even later, thinking of the tragic situation after Japan's defeat, Yamashita Fengfu re-encouraged himself, Japan must not fail, after the defeat, I am afraid that there will only be the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, if Japan does not slaughter everywhere, there is still room for negotiation, but now I am afraid it will be difficult, unless the squadron cannot hit the Japanese mainland.
Although China no longer has a navy, if the squadron can't hit the Japanese mainland, Yamashita believes that only if it wins, he won't expect to lose, the squadron won't land in Japan, I'm afraid the United States also hates Japan openly, if the squadron slaughters the Japanese, the Americans may be happy to see it, and maybe the United States will participate in the massacre.
The history of the United States seems to be very democratic, but everyone knows how many unconscionable things have been done in private, otherwise how to explain that the original tens of millions of Indians are now only 100,000!
Thinking of this, Yamashita Fengwen had a very headache, the military department was controlled by a group of brainless people, only caring about interests, not looking at whether they had such a big appetite at all, no matter how capable the people below were, the strategic defeat was fatal, if Japan died, it would also be supported to death by these people.