"Before October, the world seemed to be in a state of darkness, and the Axis armies seemed unstoppable from the cold of Soviet Russia to the scorching heat of Egypt, from the vast Pacific Ocean to the rainy season in Burma; But after the month of October, God's mercy finally came to the suffering multitude. Full book (зZcncom)

At El Alamein, the shrewd and cunning Desert Fox was defeated by General Montgomery, and Rommel fled Egypt with tens of thousands of soldiers; On the banks of the Volga, the arrogant German army was exhausted, the Volga was in sight, but the Germans were never able to rush to the river.

In the forests of northern Burma, the Chinese Expeditionary Force under the command of General Yu Jishi won the victory in the defense of Myitkyina after more than a month of arduous fighting. It was a hard-fought ...... victory. 0”

Webb put down his pen and pushed open the window, revealing a hint of fish belly white in the morning light on the horizon. The Battle of Northern Burma has ended, and the expeditionary force is pursuing the fleeing Japanese army. The sound of gunfire had moved away from Myitkyina, but he felt as if it was still ringing in his ears.

The expeditionary force correctly judged the intentions of the 7th Japanese army and cleverly designed it, first holding on to the 8th Army of Yucheng Wanxin into Mozambique for half a month to achieve the goal of depleting the Japanese army, and then luring Iida Shojiro to Myitkyina to induce him to attack Myitkyina, while the main force was deployed in the northeast and southwest of Dongchina, and Wang Yaowu led the 74th Army to hold Myitkyina.

The defense of Myitkyina lasted for a week, the Japanese army successively conquered all the commanding heights around Myitkyina, occupied the airfield outside the city, attacked the city of Myitkyina, Wang Yaowu commanded the whole army to defend it, the most dangerous time, the Japanese army occupied half of Myitkyina, Wang Baowu's own guards launched a counterattack, only to curb the offensive of the 7th Japanese army, and the good luck of the Japanese army ended here.

In mid-November, Bai Chongxi and Yu Jishi commanded the 103rd Army, the 112th Army, the 54th Army, the 1st New Eighth Army and the 17th Division of the British Army to launch an overwhelming attack on the periphery.

Iida Shojiro suddenly woke up and found that he had fallen for Yu Jishi, and hurriedly transferred the 18th Division and the 55th Division from Lashio for reinforcements, but this move had already been expected by Bai Chongxi. At the same time as Myitkyina counterattacked, Luhan also led his troops to counterattack, pestering Tanaka Shinichi, who abandoned Lashio and retreated to Papani Mountain.

Lu Han then pinned down the Japanese army in front with the 65th Army, and led the 58th Army to pursue westward, attacking the 18th Division and the 55th Division from behind.

Lu Han's actions strongly supported the Myitkyina operation, but the British 17th Division did not complete the task and failed to seize Ba Mo, the Japanese 18th Division's Zhiben Wing preemptively occupied Ba Mo, and the British army who arrived later started a fierce battle in Ba Mo, although the battle had been a month and the ammunition was extremely scarce, but the Japanese still stubbornly held Ba Mo.

But the outcome of the Battle of Myitkyina was irreversible, and Iida Shojiro was unable to stop the counterattack of the expeditionary force, and the Japanese soldiers swung the last bullet of the 38 shots, rushed at the swarming Chinese soldiers, and detonated the last grenade.

In the sky, there are fighters of the expeditionary force, and on the ground, there are red-eyed and excited Chinese. In a crushing defeat, the Japanese troops of four divisions retreated to Bamo, and the four armies of the expeditionary force were like four cheetahs in the jungle, constantly fighting out of the jungle and tearing off pieces of flesh from the Japanese. The Japanese fled in a hurry to Ba Mo, leaving all the wounded and all the heavy weapons along the way.

This time, the squadron did not stop at a moment's notice, but resolutely pursued. As soon as Iida Shojiro entered Mo on the front foot, the Lu Ruishan Independent Division, the vanguard of the 103rd Army on the back foot, chased after him, and then immediately launched an attack, as if he did not know at all, he only had more than 100,000 people, and the Japanese army in the city was more than 30,000, and half a day later, the new 38th Division and the new 22nd Division also arrived; The 112th Army led by Huang Botao immediately appeared in the southwest of Bamo.

Iida Shojiro did not dare to stay at Bamo any longer, leaving part of the infantry to block the attack, and the main force withdrew from Bamo that night and fled towards Mandalay. Iida Ichi, Tanaka Shinichi immediately abandoned Papani Hill and fled to Mandalay as well. The expeditionary force ate the Japanese army of Bamo, and then recovered the cities of Meimiao, Xibu, Myitsone, etc., and the whole army pressed towards Mandalay.

The Battle of Myitkyina ended in a crushing defeat for the Japanese army, in this battle, the Japanese army lost more than 60,000 troops, the materials stored in half a year were exhausted, the commander of the 51st Division was killed in the field, the commander of the 71st Division was seriously wounded, and the rest of the troops and officers below the commander of the wing were killed and wounded innumerably. Shoji Iida? After escaping back to Mandalay, he committed suicide.

When the troops regained Meimiao and arrived outside Mandalay, Yu Jishi resolutely stopped the attack, and Stilwell was angry again, but this time he was very smart not to argue with Yu Jishi face-to-face, but telegraphed Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek did not intervene, but let Bai Chongxi fly from Kunming to the front line to mediate the conflict between Stilwell and Yu Jishi.

To Stilwell's disappointment, Bai Chongxi, after considering the overall battle situation, made the same decision as Yu Jishi, stopped the attack, and moved to rest.

"A month and a half of fighting has exhausted the troops, and the troops have suffered great casualties. $ is also very scarce, the strategic day of the battle in northern Myanmar has been reached, Mandalay is already meat in our hands, when to eat, it depends on when we are happy, now turn to rest and recuperate, to keep the victory of the battle in northern Burma.

After the two battles of Lashio and northern Burma, we have turned the tide of the war in Burma, the Japanese army has lost its offensive capability in Burma, the initiative is in our hands, and we can fight the war according to our vision.

"General Stilwell, Chairman of the Committee asked me to tell you that there is no hurry to recover Burma" After the meeting, Bai Chongxi left Stilwell and Yu Jishi behind: "Our eyes cannot only see the Japanese army in Burma, we must see the Japanese army in the whole of Southeast Asia, with our current strength, we may be able to conquer Mandalay, but it is bound to attract the Japanese army from the whole of Southeast Asia to Burma, which will surpass our strength, General, you now have a lot of time to reorganize the troops, and the chairman of the committee agreed to reorganize the expeditionary force according to the establishment of the US army, and reorganize ten armies, 400,000 to 500,000 people, with this force, we can start from here and fight all the way to Singapore. ”

"I agree with the integration of the troops, but I have to remind you that the chairman of the committee has promised that I have full authority over the integration of the troops, including the right to make recommendations on personnel." Stilwell reluctantly accepted this decision, and he secretly decided in his heart that the reorganization of the expeditionary force must be controlled by him, including the selection of generals. Bai Chongxi agreed, and then he said: "We have an engineering unit that has received equipment in India, and in addition, we have transferred about 30,000 migrant workers, and we will mobilize tens of millions of migrant workers to build a highway from Leido, India, through Myitkyina to Baoshan in western Yunnan, in half a year."

After the Battle of Northern Burma, China judged that the Japanese would not be able to launch another offensive within half a year, and Chiang Kai-shek, after receiving the news of the victory in Myitkyina, immediately telegraphed to Roosevelt that the proposed Sino-Indian highway could begin to be built.

One of the very important reasons why the US engineers came so quickly was that Marshall believed that once the Northern Burma campaign failed, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway would become very important, and the Sichuan-Tibet Highway must be expanded, and the construction of the Indian section must also be accelerated, so after obtaining Churchill's consent, Yu Peidi led the Chinese engineers into India to operate, and the United States also sent two regiments of engineers, and the Indian Governor-General's Office mobilized 50,000 Indian migrant workers to join the road construction.

Prior to this, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway went all the way to the Nathula Pass on the Sino-Indian border, south of the Nathula Pass was the Kingdom of Sikkim which was annexed by India in 15 years and became the state of Sikkim, after the British occupied Sikkim, in order to strengthen their control over Sikkim, they built a road from India to Gangtok, and at the same time, in order to strengthen the penetration into Tibet, the British built a road from Gangtok to the border area. What Yu Peidi did in India was to connect these two ~-\ roads.

Ledo is a railway interchange in India, with more than 500 kilometers from Ledo to Myitkyina, and more than 100 kilometers from Myitkyina to the western Yunnan border, with a total length of more than 600 kilometers.

"The chairman of the committee decided to mobilize 100,000 people from Hunan, Guangxi, and Guizhou, of which 50,000 would supplement the consumption of this campaign, and the other 50,000 would expand the troops, which was the first batch, and the second batch of 50,000 troops would arrive in half a year."

When Bai Suoxi said this, he glanced at Yu Jishi intentionally or unintentionally, the victory of the Northern Burma Campaign provided an opportunity, in the first phase of Huangpu, Yu Jishi was one of Chiang Kai-shek's most valued fellow villagers, and he and Chiang Kai-shek were authentic fellow villagers, both from Fenghua.

Chiang Kai-shek slightly regretted that Yu Jishi's record was never high, Chiang Kai-shek promoted him to the commander of the 88th Division, Huangpu classmates didn't say anything on the surface, in fact, they were not convinced, Yu Jishi also knew this, so in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, desperately fighting, Huangpu classmates no longer said anything.

Now that Yu Jishi has won the victory in the Northern Burma Campaign, such a record, I believe that no one will say anything, Chiang Kai-shek completely let go of the use of promotion, sparing no effort in expanding the army, Bai Chongxi believes that it will not be long before the expeditionary force commanded by Yu Jishi will be the best equipped unit in the squadron, so Chiang Kai-shek has one more choice after supporting Chen Cheng, Hu Zongnan, and Tang Enbo. Bai Chongxi did not include Zhuang Jihua, and both he and Li Zongren knew that there was a big gap between Zhuang Jihua and the people supported by Chiang Kai-shek.

Yu Jishi didn't notice the meaning in Bai Chongxi's eyes, he was a little excited, think about it, 400,000 troops equipped with good equipment are about to arrive. Since then, Jin Ge Iron Horse, scolding Fang Xuan, sweeping the pear court, smashing the Yellow Dragon, and achieving the biggest dream of an umbrella soldier.

Bai Chongxi sighed slightly, Yu Jishi's political acumen was still much worse, but after thinking about it, Chiang Kai-shek took a fancy to him, perhaps precisely because of this.

Coming out of the conference room, Yu Jishi saw Stitch chatting with Weber outside the hospital, and he had a good impression of Weber, not only because most of Weber's articles were for the expeditionary force, but more importantly, he felt the same as Zhuang Jihua, and Weber was a Westerner who was willing to understand China's position.

After becoming the commander of the expeditionary force, Yu Jishi understood Zhuang Jihua's difficulties, the commander and the deputy commander were literally only one word apart, but the powers and responsibilities were very different. As a deputy commander, you only need to take care of yourself, but as a commander, you have to take care of everything, before and after the war, soldiers, materials, road traffic, everything must be considered.

Yu Jishi wanted to bypass Stilwell and Weber, but he didn't avoid Weber's eyes, and he quickly ended the interview with Stilwell and walked quickly to Yu Jishi's side.

Yu Jishi had no choice but to stop: "Mr. Weber, when did you arrive at Lashio?" "Just arrived, and your goddamn inspection system forced me to come to headquarters." Webb feigned complaining.

Yu Jishi smiled and walked forward, and Weber asked beside him, "General, after a great victory, you seem to be in a good mood. "Of course it's good" Yu Jishi smiled and turned the defense into an attack: "Mr. Weber, what did you talk about with General Stitchham just now?" "General Stilwell is confident in recovering Mandalay, what about you, General?"

"Weber" Yu Jishi stopped and turned his head to look at Weber, and said with a straight face: "I also want to, I still want to recover Yangon, but we can't do it, now our army's strength is not enough, in fact, our army's victory in Burma has strongly supported the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater, the Northern Burma Campaign, the Japanese army has suffered heavy losses, the Japanese want to make up for it, they can only draw troops from other strategic directions, and the allies will get a chance to breathe, Webb, Burma is not the main battlefield." ”

Weber paused slightly, and then understood that this was the biggest difference between Stilwell and the two commanders of the expeditionary force, and Stilwell's idea was self-evident, and the Chinese believed that since this was not the main battlefield, then the troops should not be concentrated here, and Weber could not judge whether this truth was correct. "General, I heard that General Stilwell will be in charge of reorganizing all the expeditionary forces, what do you think as the commander of the expeditionary forces?"

"This is a visionary decision by the chairman." Yu Jishi knew very well the inside story of this decision, and did not fall for Weber, but looked at Weber with a smile: "However, Mr. Weber, this is a military secret, you can't stab the Japanese in the newspaper." ”

Webber smiled: "Don't worry, I still know this after working as a military reporter for so many years." ”

Yu Jishi didn't want to get involved with Weber, he saw Bai Chongxi coming out of it at a glance, but then he smiled, Bai Chongxi also had a high-nosed reporter next to him, Times reporter Charles.

Weber followed Yu Jishi's gaze, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "General Yu, we'll see you later, it seems that my peers have found a big target." "Double monthly pass, call for monthly pass support!!!

Double monthly pass, call for monthly pass support!!!!

The latest full book: 、、、、、、、、、、