Chapter 055: The Situation Turns Safe

Wang Hanzhang's troops now have very few weapons except for heavy weapons, and other weapons are readily available, and the radio station is also equipped with the battalion, although it is a fool, but the words are not coarse, the British must give it, and the radio is not a lethal weapon, and the British are not worried.

It's just that in terms of weapons, no matter what you say, he can't give it alive or dead, which makes the dream of the commanders of the four divisions to sing the artillery regiment shattered, Wang Hanzhang originally reserved an artillery regiment when he was training, and now the artillery has become infantry.

Wang Hanzhang's method of training soldiers in Burma was cruel, and Wang Hanzhang often invaded the devil to encourage morale, so everyone trained very hard.

On the first night of the troops' arrival in Imphal, it was tiring to travel continuously, but the troops still conducted routine surprise inspections that night to see if the soldiers had relaxed their vigilance.

At 12 o'clock in the morning, the assembly number that got up remembered that the soldiers had just fallen asleep because they were too excited, and had to get up in a hurry, and the military horns that came to mind everywhere woke up the British, and the British cursed and cursed, pulled the quilt and covered their heads, they are too lazy to move now, and they will settle accounts with the Chinese tomorrow.

Many people were woken up in a daze, half-asleep, stayed at five o'clock in the morning and remembered for a while, the expeditionary force came out to practice, Burma dawned very early, so get up early, but sleep very early at night, Wang Hanzhang only ensured that they had eight hours of sleep in normal times, and the rest was to eat and train.

And the British army has to wait for half past 7, the sun shines on the buttocks, before getting up lazily, even later, hundreds of years of peace have long worn out the heart of the colonial army, become lazy, now it is only five o'clock, the sky is bright and the military horn is woken up, there is still a part of the sleep did not hear, but the next training drill shouts are deafening, most of the British army have buildings to sleep, a group of British people rushed to the window to scold, but no one in the squadron understands, so no one scolds the British. The British didn't feel sleepy after scolding for a whole time, so they lay in front of the window to watch the ** team training.

In the eyes of the British soldiers, the Chinese are simply insane, such a beautiful day actually did not sleep, in the last night, Impal not only the British did not sleep well, even the Indians did not sleep well, the Indians did not get up at eight o'clock every day, and now it is three hours early.

When the British washed up at the specified time and had breakfast, it was already half past eight o'clock, and the British came to protest against the behavior of the squadron, believing that this was a serious disturbance to the people, and they demanded that the squadron apologize.

Hearing the words of the translator, the soldiers of the expeditionary force all looked at these British people like monsters, and they all thought that these British people were sick in the brain, and they were not well trained, so how could they fight devils! And the officers of the expeditionary force also replied that if they could drive away the invaders, who wouldn't want to sleep!

After many negotiations, the squadron has always thought that the British have a brain disease, too lazy to tell them, to take care of their own training, the British had to find Wavell hope that they will transfer the squadron **, otherwise there is no way to sleep, it should be the squadron ** city like this, in the middle of the night suddenly to urgently assemble, sometimes one night is twice, in the morning the expeditionary force will get up to train, they can fully imagine the expeditionary force stay in Imphal, what kind of days they will face.

However, the decision made by Wavell really surprised the British, although the middle ** land has to go, but not all, according to the plan, three of the six divisions of the ** squadron will be transferred to Chittagong, which is the most vulnerable to attack, and it is natural that a division that has gone through the war will lead the other two Wang Hanzhang's divisions.

The remaining three divisions will be defended in Imphal, and the British army is not willing to let the squadron go to the hinterland of India when it is not very necessary, anyway, these squadrons have just recruited new recruits and will not fight, and the British cannot command, so the British simply left them in Imphal, an important Indian town close to Burma.

Of the two British divisions and three Indian divisions of the British army stationed in Imphal, except for one British brigade that remained to guard Imphal, the rest of the troops were to support the Calcutta area against the Japanese.

Before, the British army stationed at least 150,000 troops in Imphal and other places, and now because of the Japanese sneak attack, half of the British and Indian troops have gone to support, and now the squadron is coming, and the British will leave a little army to symbolically defend the squadron, or by the way, so most of the remaining troops are going to fight.

A group of British people were quite frustrated after knowing the news, they thought that the squadron ** was coming, they would not have to go to the front, but they did not expect that the Chinese would come, or they would go to the front, and they would not know if there would be a return.

The British side came to an end for the time being, and the expeditionary force in Burma received a large amount of weapons and supplies, and immediately launched a large-scale attack, and the intensity and scale of the attack were even more powerful than at the beginning.

In order for the squadron to end the war in Burma as soon as possible, the British and Americans provided 200 tons of bombs every day to destroy the Japanese army's fortifications and supplies.

The Chinese Air Force not only repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese air power, but also organized the bombing of Japanese airfields and military points in Thailand and the Malay Peninsula, forcing the Japanese army to have no more supplies to support Burma.

Yamashita had a hunch that Burma might have reached the last moment, although the effect of the Indian incident was unexpected, but the expeditionary force was not fooled, and had to seize Rangoon and encircle and annihilate the Japanese army here to support India, so Yamashita Fengfu had no way at all, the expeditionary force would defend Burma like an iron wall, and the Japanese army did not have an advantage in weapons and equipment, so there was no chance to sneak attack and disrupt the deployment of the expeditionary force.

Yamashita Fengwen is actually more like an evacuation, but this evacuation of southern Burma, which was not easy to take, even if it is to be recaptured in the future, I am afraid it will not be as simple as fighting the British, the expeditionary force is not comparable to the stupid British, and at that time the Japanese army was facing huge challenges in various battlefields, maybe there will not be too many troops to seize Burma, Japan's soldiers and materials have been exhausted, unless the Japanese military department changes the current war strategy, otherwise it will only be slowly consumed by the Allies.

Yamashita felt that if he could withdraw from China and rely on the strength of the navy to control Southeast Asia and seize Australia, then China would not be able to attack across the sea at all, and although the US military had that ability, it would suffer heavy casualties in front of the millions of Japanese soldiers, and I am afraid that it would only be able to make peace at that time.

If the current strategy continues, Japan will at most save its territory when it is defeated, and everything else will be deprived, and all the benefits that Japan has gained since the Meiji Restoration will be taken away at all, just look at the fate of Germany in World War I.

And now the situation in Japan is not the same as Germany, Japan massacres tens of millions of people in other countries in the occupied areas, other countries are not afraid, but as an independent country, will China let Japan go, the Chinese have always wanted revenge since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, the two countries have been old enemies since that time, if China wins, I am afraid that Japan will never turn over.

At the moment of "boom ......" a 500-kilogram bomb exploded 3 meters away from the underground command post of Fengwen at the foot of the mountain, and there was also an underground hiding hole below, which had been blown up and collapsed, and the Japanese inside were probably all dead.

Soon an adjutant came out with a document and handed it to Yamashita Fumi, which counted the remaining number of Japanese troops.

From the very beginning to the present, the Japanese army has a total of 120,000 Japanese troops, 30,000 Burmese Independence Army, and 100,000 Thai troops participated in this battle, but looking at the statistics, the Japanese army still has more than 50,000 people, and the Thai army is only more than 40,000.

Now the expeditionary force has captured Guya by the sea, the railway hub of Hindida, and Repotan, and the area between the Siddang River and the Salween River is already in danger, but the Japanese army does not have the strength to support these places, and the fall is a matter of time, if these places are occupied, then the retreat of the Japanese army in Rangoon and other places will be blocked, and then the time can only escape from the sea.

The lack of supplies, only Chinese planes were seen in the air, and their own planes no longer dared to go to war easily, and Yamashita also knew the situation, the airfields and material bases near Burma were bombed, and even Bangkok was bombed twice, and the Thai people are now panicking, and they all think that the Japanese army is going to fail, and Thailand is now very unstable.

Yamashita Bongfumi, the Malay Tiger, had to ask for tactical guidance, and even Yamashita Bongfumi asked for help, and the Japanese military headquarters was really surprised, but if the Japanese generals who loved face more than their own lives asked for tactical guidance, I am afraid that their survival has reached the last moment. The Japanese military department and the Japanese emperor did not dare to be careless, and immediately ordered the nearby Japanese troops to support, but it was useless, if they could leave, they would have supported a long time ago, and now the ports everywhere have been completely destroyed, and even the food and supplies of the Japanese army in Burma are difficult to guarantee, how to reinforce it, and the region of Southeast Asia is now unstable, if the Japanese army leaves, it is very likely that there will be chaos.

The Japanese army in China could not leave, and the news that the major theaters in China were preparing for a major battle, and the news of seizing the lost territory had long been detected by the Japanese army, otherwise they could have sent troops south to support, and the Japanese base camp felt for the first time that it was so short of people. There was nothing anyone could do about it, and it seemed that the Burmese Front under Yamashita had only one way to be annihilated or escape.