Chapter 024: Victory in the First Battle
Fifteen minutes after the Qin army shelled again, a regiment of soldiers dispersed and followed several tanks to kill the Japanese and Thai positions.
The Japanese had lost all their losses in the thirty minutes of artillery bombardment, and the two Japanese brigades outside the city barely resisted, and the Qin army easily seized the position.
The inner city was also burned down by the fire caused by the shelling at the same time, but it was not burned yet, so only a sea of fire was seen, and it was impossible to find out what happened to the Japanese army inside, but the soldiers of the Qin army believed that there were no more people alive in the city, and they all felt the blazing air outside the city.
The fire burned for two hours before the Qin army cautiously entered the city, but the Japanese army did survive in the underground fortifications, which made the Qin army have to admire the tenacious vitality of the Japanese army, but this did not help, and they were quickly resolved.
The Central Route Army won the initial battle, and the follow-up troops continued to arrive, while the forward troops continued to advance towards Chiang Mai.
The Southern Route Army, led by the Expeditionary Force, fought fiercely with the Devils in Hpaan Mawlamyine, while the other attacked Tak and Sukhothai.
Pa'an is at the mouth of the Lancang River, the Japanese army has been operating here for a long time, and the permanent fortifications in it are very complete, and it is Dai Anlan's 88th Army who is responsible for attacking here.
Under the influence of Wang Hanzhang, now neither the expeditionary force nor the Qin army is using the tactics of the sea of people, and the Qin State cannot withstand that kind of huge casualties, after all, the foundation is too thin. In the same way, we do not want the expeditionary force to lose tens of thousands of people or more if it fights in one place, and there will be many battles in the future, first of all, we must take Southeast Asia, as well as the occupied areas of China, and after fighting these, we also need to go north to recover the millions of territories occupied by Soviet Russia. If you want to occupy a city, you will have to kill and injure so many people, and it is estimated that countless women will have to use cucumbers in the future.
Hpa-An and Mawlamyine were the main areas of attack, and after the capture of this place, the whole situation was launched, so the attack was not only supported by thousands of artillery pieces, but also bombarded the city by aircraft.
What Wang Hanzhang needs is territory, as for the natives in the territory, Wang Hanzhang doesn't want one, as for property, Wang Hanzhang can only give up for the lives of soldiers.
Ha An had been left in ruins under the shelling, with the exception of a few particularly low houses that did not seem to have been taken care of by the shelling, and the rest were not intact.
The brethren of the 88th Army sent three regiments of infantry into the city, and at the slightest movement they opened fire. It was disgusting to see the incomplete corpses of the natives and Japanese soldiers killed in the city, as well as the internal organs and stumps scattered everywhere.
Look at the native's upper body, the lower body has no idea where to live, and the internal organs of the upper body are left on the ground, a bit like the internal organs that flow out of the pig after killing the pig in the countryside, but there is still a lot of blood now, it looks extremely terrifying, and most people estimate that they will have nightmares at night.
Along the way, a few hands or a head were exposed in the collapsed house, and many blown bricks and tiles on the street were mixed with a certain blurred part of human flesh and blood, one beach after another, and one lump after another, and the soldiers stepped on the poop that exploded in their intestines from time to time, but they didn't care about this.
The soldiers looked around nervously, moving quickly or slowly towards the city, all the bullets loaded and ready to shoot.
"Click......" A series of gunshots hit two soldiers, one died on the spot, fortunately the people were scattered, and at the same time they were moving quickly, and then hid in a relatively sheltered place, so the devil's light machine gun did not achieve the expected effect.
Several soldiers held submachine guns in the direction of the devil, suppressing the fire of the devil's machine gun, but they deviated, did not hit the devil, did not let the devil flinch, but frantically strafed the position where the soldiers were hiding.
And the soldiers finally figured out the direction of the devil, which was very hidden, neither the gun nor the mortar could hit there, or even if it hit, it was estimated that the shells would not work.
A soldier immediately ran away, called a 75mm cannon, and with a cannon sound, the shell blew up the devil's machine gun position, and at the same time the devil was also blown into the sky.
Although they lost two brothers, the expeditionary force was also secretly happy, thanks to their own weapons and ammunition, which could be used there in the past, in the past, when this situation was to send two people with cluster grenades to blow up, usually to kill one such machine gun at least 4 or 5 people to lose, not including the brothers who were stolen attack.
In this way, the 88th Army advanced to the inner city of Hpa-an, and it was not until the evening that all of Hpa-An was taken. It is really time-consuming to storm the city, but it is still not a big Hpa-An, and the houses are not like the brick and cement houses of Europe.
At the same time, Sun Liren commanded five divisions to attack Mawlamyine, which was a seaport that had been badly destroyed by bombing before, but the Japanese army vigorously developed underground fortifications, and the Japanese army was like a groundhog digging holes everywhere.
Small artillery shells and aerial bombs were no longer effective against the Japanese army, so the only way to deal with the Japanese underground fortifications was to use 500 kg heavy aerial bombs and 152mm howitzers to attack the Japanese underground fortifications.
As the largest port in Myanmar and a historic city, Mawlamyine's scale is far from being comparable to that of Hpa-An, so the attacking troops have been repeatedly frustrated.
Because there is no Japanese fortifications, the attack is not very effective, the soldiers can only use submachine guns and grenades to destroy everything that can be destroyed, and for the underground fortifications of the devils, once found, they can only call heavy artillery to strike, and then use flamethrowers to burn the devils hiding in the holes.
Sun Liren studied in the United States, so his troops all received his influence, and therefore when fighting, the use of these weapons did not need to be reminded by Wang Hanzhang at all, as long as the weapons arrived, Sun Liren knew how to use them and how to use them.
With Ha An taken and Mawlamyine surrounded, most of the expeditionary force did not stop there, and they attacked south according to the established combat policy.
And the Japanese army in Japan and Southeast Asia is now in chaos. The squadron and the Qin army have already attacked the Nu River, and have taken Ye Hong Son and Pa An, and Mawlamyine is also surrounded. The Japanese army had already learned that Wang Hanzhang had dispatched 500,000 troops to attack this time, and it looked like it was planning to take Southeast Asia in one fell swoop, so it was impossible for Japan not to be in a hurry.
In Tokyo, Japan, the Japanese military headquarters is negotiating the situation on the Indochina Peninsula.
Hirohito said: "Do you Aiqing have a way to deal with the crisis in front of you?" ”
The people below didn't speak, they really couldn't think of a way, more than 200,000 of Japan's most elite soldiers were killed in Burma before, and there were only 400,000 elite soldiers in the entire Pacific Ocean at that time, and now a large number of Japanese soldiers are pinned down in China and the Pacific, and now only the Eastern Army can move.
In the current Pacific theater, the US military attack is very sharp, and Japan has no choice but to transfer part of the Kwantung Army to the Pacific to fight against the US army, and now a considerable part of the Kwantung Army is composed of the old and weak, and its combat effectiveness has plummeted.
Looking at the Chinese army that attacked this time, the expeditionary force that Japan feared the most was impressively listed, 200,000 people, if needed, they believed that Wang Hanzhang would send the remaining 100,000 expeditionary forces to Thailand to fight.
In addition, in this operation, the Yunnan army also sent nearly 100,000 people to attack, even if the Japanese attacked from the guanguan, at most they could contain these people.
That is to say, the Qin side can use at least 300,000 expeditionary forces and 300,000 Qin troops for a total of 600,000 troops to attack the Indochina Peninsula.
At present, there are 60,000 Japanese troops in Thailand, 50,000 in the Malay Peninsula, and 50,000 in the original French Indochina, a total of 160,000 troops.
The Japanese base camp is very troublesome, the Kwantung Army is so far away, even if it is sent, it may be far away and cannot quench the thirst of the near, but where else to find troops to resist?
If there is less army, it can only send the results of the war to the people of China, and the precious soldiers and materials of the empire are lost in vain, but there are too many people.
Although the Japanese were arrogant, they believed that they needed at least 150,000 troops to fight against the coalition forces, and in the process, they also needed to use Japan's secret weapons, poison gas bombs and bacteriological bombs, otherwise they could not guarantee victory.
Poison gas bombs have always been Japan's killer weapon in China, and when the war does not go well, Japan uses these biological and chemical weapons, and they have tried and tested, and they can easily turn the tide of the war every time.
Hirohito saw that the people below didn't speak, and became angry, "I usually know that playing with women, taking the salary of the empire, using power for personal gain, and using power for personal gain, it is useless at the critical moment, what do I want you to do." ”
A group of military and political bigwigs immediately buried their heads neatly, and they also wanted to speak, but they really couldn't find a way to deal with it.
Hirohito roared: "Can you just watch the fruits of the bloody battles of hundreds of thousands of soldiers being taken away by the Shina people? Today the people of China have seized Thailand, tomorrow it will be the entire Indochina Peninsula, and then they will attack Wuhan, Nanjing, Shanghai, then North China, Northeast China, North Korea, and finally attack the Japanese mainland. ”
As a fanatical militarist, he wanted to share the emperor's worries very much, but he had no choice but to say: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but the minister will definitely swear to defend the emperor and Japan." ”
The others glanced at this person with great contempt, and secretly cursed the sycophant in their hearts.