Section 2 The First Battle I

"You don't see you, Han Zhongjun. \\。 qΒ (5), com weak crown captives, please Changying: "※ You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the absolute light cavalry urges the battle clouds!"

The boy should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life?

The situation is that the country is in danger, and the feather plucking competition does not stop!

Abandon my old pen, and hold my wartime time,

More than 100,000 comrades sang war songs and joined the army.

Qi joined the army, cleaned the dust, and swore to sweep away the slaves without regard for themselves!

On the Yunnan-Burma Highway, military flags are hunting. Military vehicles go around. The passionate and majestic singing voice wafted in the mountains. The people of western Yunnan have never seen such a powerful squadron. Motors roared, tanks made deep marks on the road, and the endless Kadha-tow heavy artillery sped toward Burma, and the cars were filled with young Chinese soldiers, flanked by infantry marching on foot in single columns, all dressed in yellow-green uniforms, striding south.

This time, Chiang Kai-shek also spent a lot of money to reorganize the Third Independent Tank Brigade in Kunming. Equipped with a total of 120 tanks produced by the Kunming Tank Factory, this brigade also returned to the expeditionary force, and also took out 160 newly produced armored vehicles to form an independent division of the expeditionary force with the Third Tank Brigade, and transferred a brigade commander named Lin Zhuo from the Fifth Group Army to serve as the division commander. In the sky, 270 planes of the US Air Aid China Volunteer Team were purchased to provide air cover.

It is no wonder that the people of western Yunnan are excited, such a prosperous military appearance, not in the history of western Yunnan, never in the history of China, how many years, only to see foreigners flaunting their might on Chinese soil, Chinese can only be bullied even on their own land, now there is such a mighty and majestic army, they can finally raise their eyebrows.

The old men of all ethnic groups set up incense tables and altars at the intersection, and the sorcerers officiated at the sacrifices, slaughtered pigs and sheep, and prayed for the soldiers of the expeditionary army. As soon as the troops stopped, people on both sides of the road rushed up, rice wine, bananas, tea and eggs. Sent to the officers and men of the expeditionary force.

"You don't see, the final army of the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is the captive, please Changying; You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds! A man should be in serious danger, how can he let Confucian Guan know this life? On a hill at the south head of Jiugu Bridge, Zhuang Jihua sang in a low voice, I don't know who wrote this song, it began to be sung from Chongqing, and quickly spread to all war zones across the country.

Zhuang Jihua didn't know that this song appeared because of his appearance? It was still there, and he was attracted when he first heard this song in western Yunnan. Out of the Nine Valley Bridge on the land of Myanmar, the Myanmar spring in February is romantic, the hillside is full of swaying poppies, and the girl wearing a tube skirt walks gracefully on the mountain road with a bucket. It becomes a beautiful landscape.

The two ends of the Kutani Bridge are two worlds entirely. The gongs and drums at the north end of the bridge were noisy, and the people of all ethnic groups sang and danced to see off the expeditionary force, but there were only dozens of people scattered in the south of the bridge, holding small flags to welcome the expeditionary force.

"General Zhuang, we should speed up again, otherwise I'm afraid it's too late." A lieutenant colonel of the US Army reminded Zhuang Jihua that he did not understand very much that Yangon was already in danger, but the commander of the 200,000-strong army was still standing here unhurriedly watching the scenery.

Not long after the decision of the Huangshan Mansion to send troops. The Japanese troops who were stuck on the Thai-Burmese border began to move. The Japanese army split into six routes and entered the Thai-Burmese border, which stretched for hundreds of miles. The Ta Non Thanong Mountains are primeval forests, only a few paths can be passed in the dry season, and the forests are full of swamp traps, but the Japanese army only carried light weapons, under the guidance of the Burmese Independent Volunteers, at the cost of 20 percent * human lives, through the entire Ther Non Thanong Mountains, suddenly appeared behind the British defense line, launched an attack from the flank, captured the Tuwei and Gao Afterburner in one fell swoop, and surrounded the 20,000 British troops stationed in Mau Tam Jin, and the British army had to stage a Far East Dunkirk, retreat to Rangoon from the sea, and throw a large number of supplies to the Japanese army.

Mao Danjin was lost, and Yangon was in chaos. The British fled this dangerous place on ships, and Wavell no longer disregarded the face of the British Empire. He took the initiative to ask Chiang Kai-shek for help, asking Chiang Kai-shek to quickly send a large army into Burma to assist the British army in defending Rangoon. His chief of staff and commander of the British forces in Burma, Hu Dun, sent men to Longling three times in succession within 10 days. In the end, he also went to Longling in person and asked Zhuang Jihua to send troops immediately.

The performance of the British made the Americans shake their heads when they knew their previous attitude towards sending troops to China. Magrud was even more disdainful in his heart. But China's attitude also worried him, Zhuang Jihua was unusual, on the one hand, he refused to send troops on the grounds that the 103rd Army had not arrived; On the other hand, it airlifted 3,000 automobile troops to Yangon, and drove all the 1,000 Dodge trucks and supplies aided by the United States back to China. And by the urgency of the British, he extorted five hundred trucks from them. All of them were used to carry supplies from the port of Yangon.

The situation in Southeast Asia deteriorated rapidly, and in Peninsular Malaysia, the British army lost its armor and was defeated. The remnants of the British army blew up the Johor Strait dike. Trapped in the isolated city of Singapore, the Japanese army prepared to force its way across the strait day and night on the northern shore of the Straits of Johor, and in the eyes of military experts, it was only a matter of time before Singapore fell.

The Japanese captured Mau Tamjin and recalled Wavell from Java, and he urgently ordered the Anglo-Indian 7th Armoured Brigade, which was to be transferred to Singapore, and the 17th Anglo-Indian Division, which had been formed in the net, to Burma quickly. After doing this, he flew to Chongqing to ask for help from China.

"Lieutenant Colonel Simmons, the newly formed 39th Division led by General Dianlan, has rushed to Mandalay. Deputy Commander Yu Jishi also led the New Eighth Army to follow. I have heard that Wavell has gathered 50,000 men in Rangoon, and with the prestige of the British Empire, how can he hold it for a week, and in this week, we will also be in Zhuangji

According to the Sino-US military cooperation meeting, each division of the expeditionary force should be equipped with three US military liaison officers, and Magrud did not have enough officers in his hurry, so he had to send out personnel from his military delegation, and Simmons was fortunate to be the head of the US military liaison group and stayed at the headquarters of the expeditionary force.

"General, in Chinese words, the military situation is urgent, and saving soldiers is like fighting fire, and there can be no delay." Simmons kept the fire in his heart suppressed. Before coming, the embassy provided information about the general. The information spoke highly of this general, believing that his ability and courage were outstanding among Chinese generals, and he had successfully commanded the defense of Nanjing, the defense of Xuzhou, and the counterattack of Zaoyang, and was the Chinese general who had destroyed the most enemies since the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Can go to the back of the expeditionary force. Simmons did not find anything superhuman about this general, on the contrary, he was slow, calculating, and even shamelessly blackmailing allies, and he was most concerned about Rangoon's supplies, and seemed to have no interest in defending Burma. Zhuang Jihua smiled faintly, did not answer, and still did not look back, what Simmons said was exactly what he was worried about. Although the British conceded in Chongqing. Agreeing to China's military presence in Burma has repeatedly put obstacles in the way of concrete actions. Therefore, before the loss of Mao Danjin, the expeditionary force had not yet stepped out of the country.

When Mao Danjin was lost, the British began to panic, but Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing was full of doubts, worried that the British would sacrifice the expeditionary force, and the expeditionary force and the Japanese army could be consumed, and they fled to India.

Before Chongqing reached an agreement, Song Yunfei and Zhao Hanjie led two special forces to secretly attack southern Burma, Yu Chengwan led some staff officers of the New Eighth Army to form an advance team and advanced to Taunggyi, Zhang Jian led the advance team of the 66th Army to Lashio, Huang Botao led the advance team of the Kou Army to Mandalay, only the 58th Army led by Lu Han was still in Baoshan, and the 103rd Army was still assembled in Kunming.

China does not yet have so many transport planes to transport an entire army, including weapons and equipment, from distant Hubei to Kunming within a week or two, and the 103rd Army has two divisions and an independent brigade, with a total strength of 45,000 troops. In the end, Lu Ruishan's Independent Brigade and Liao Yaoxiang's new 22nd Division came from the sky, and Sun Liren led the new 38th Division to go by land, but the technical equipment was to go by sky.

The sky is now entirely the sky of the Chinese Air Force. After the Zero fighter briefly dominated the sky, with the appearance of the Wild Horse fighter on the Chinese battlefield, the technical advantage of the Zero gradually disappeared, coupled with the fact that the Japanese army needed a large number of aircraft to go north and south, the main force of the Japanese air force was transferred out of the Chinese battlefield, and the other rose and fell. The Chinese Air Force has regained dominance of the Chinese skies.

Liao Yaoxiang's new 22nd Division, Lu Ruishan's independent 276th Brigade, and all the technical equipment of the 103rd Army had arrived in Kunming after three weeks of transportation, but the new 38th Division led by Sun Liren himself was still at the junction of Yunnan and was marching towards Kunming day and night.

Zhuang Jihua didn't tell Simmons about these situations. From the first time he saw Simmons, he knew that this was a soldier who had never been on the battlefield, and he was full of the arrogance of a beautiful **, so he explained to him. Superfluous.

Returning to the battlefield, Zhuang Jihua felt a kind of excitement circulating inside and outside his body, he was trying to suppress this excitement, the enemy situation was serious, and Li Anding's intelligence network all over Burma transmitted the movements of the Japanese army and the British army to the expeditionary force headquarters in a timely manner.

The British troops in Yangon City are the 63rd Brigade of the Anglo-Australian Army and the 1st Division of the Anglo-Burmese Army, the 17th Division of the Anglo-Indian Army, and the 7th Armoured Brigade of the Anglo-Indian Army.

At present, there are three Japanese army unit numbers, the 33rd Division and the 35th Division. The 55th Division, the Bangkok Station of the Military Commandery, reported that the 18th Division of the Japanese Army was near Chiang Mai and showed signs of moving westward.

The three divisions attacked Rangoon in two directions, with the 33rd and 55th Divisions attacking Rangoon along the Rangman Road, and the 35th Division detouring to Levin and inserting into the British flank.

The Japanese attack was very successful, and on the 15th they forcibly crossed the Salween River, and on the 17th they broke through the British Billing Line. The 17th Anglo-Indian Division was defeated, and then the only bridge over the Siddang River was captured, and the British army retreated to Bago.

In the face of this situation, Zhuang Jihua really has no confidence in holding Yangon, of course, if Dai Anlan is forced to Yangon, it will be too late, but the entire expeditionary force will be thrown into the Yangon battlefield in waves. The formation of refueling tactics is really a taboo for soldiers, and this is something he is absolutely unwilling. But this is not clear to Simmons. I can't explain it clearly, so I just ignore him.

"Commander, the telegram palace embroidery painting reported behind him, Zhuang Jihua turned around and took the telegram from her hand, this is Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek once again reminded him that the battle of Burma should be cautious, do not rush south to Yangon, and first control northern Burma.

"Call back, and say the student is obeying

Zhuang Jihua replied simply, he understood what Chiang Kai-shek meant, and Chiang Kai-shek also couldn't trust the British army. The palace embroidery painting is about to leave. Zhuang Jihua said again: "Call Director He."

Gong Xiuhua was a little surprised, but she didn't say anything and turned around and walked in front of the group of officers, crazy one, the thin and short officer walked quickly to the command.

"Director He, we haven't talked about it since you came, I hope you don't have any worries in your heart, I believe that your concave said that Shanxunshu is a subordinate of the mountain, I believe that the small eye rice will not be bad, I hope you can use your talents, do you understand?"

"Please rest assured, commander, humble duty understands." Director He replied.

This Director He was recommended by Li Jishen. He also had a peculiar experience, he was a native of Hainan, studied in Malay in his early years, and later joined Malaybi. During the Great Revolution, he returned to China, entered the Whampoa Military Academy, and transferred to China. After the Great Revolution, he went to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, became a member of Jiang Xianyun and Xu Xiangqian's command, and served as the commander of the Red Ninth Army, the main force of the Fourth Front Army, and was a famous little Zhuge in the Red Fourth Front Army.

But his fate changed in the struggle of Yan'an to liquidate Zhang Guozhuo, Yan'an's liquidation of Zhang Guozhuo affected almost all the generals of the Fourth Front Army, He Wei was incomprehensible and felt threatened, so he left Yan'an without saying goodbye. Return to Guangdong. But his long-term military career made it difficult for him to adapt to civilian life. Life was once extremely difficult. During the Japanese occupation of Guangzhou, he fled to Wuzhou, Guangxi, and returned to Guangzhou after the liberation of Guangzhou. At this time, he met Zhang Guozhuo, Zhang Guozhuo persuaded him to come out to participate in the Anti-Japanese War, and recommended him to Li Jishen in Guangzhou, Li Jishen persuaded him, and then recommended him to Deng Yanda, Deng Yanda just needed military cadres, and immediately reused it, and recommended it to Zhuang Jihua before the expeditionary force went abroad.

Speaking of Zhang Guozhuo, I have to mention Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua openly threatened to avenge Jiang Xianyun in the high-level of the Kuomintang, Zhang Guozhuo thought it was a joke at first, but later Dai Li and Chen Lifu seriously warned him, asking him to be careful, if he fell into the hands of Zhuang Jihua, he would definitely die. Zhang Guozhuo was scared at this time, he knew that the three southwestern provinces were Zhuang Jihua's sphere of influence, so he never entered the three southwestern provinces. After running around in Hunan and Jiangxi, and after the recovery of Guangzhou, he went to Guangzhou to serve as a senior staff member of the Fourth War Zone and a member of the Guangdong Provincial Government.

There is no doubt that Ho Wei is a member of the party. He didn't hide it from Zhuang Jihua, he fought with the Kuomintang for nearly ten years, and it was impossible for him to throw himself into the arms of the Kuomintang, but he admired Deng Yanda more when he was at the Whampoa Military Academy, or he would have been 0 members a long time ago. followed Di Yanda.

After He Wei arrived at the headquarters of the expeditionary force, Zhuang Jihua appointed him as the chief of operations, and Gong Chu, the former director of the operations department, served as the deputy chief of staff, both of whom had the rank of major general, in addition to Li Anding, who also left the Western Yunnan Administrative Office and served as the director of the intelligence department of the expeditionary force.

Zhuang Jihua's worry about He Wei is. His character is a little withdrawn, and people should be very shrewd, which can be proved by the fact that he ran out of Yan'an alone, and so far, several high-ranking generals have run out of Yan'an.

Similarly, He Wei was also a little curious about Zhuang Jihua. When he was in the Red Fourth Front Army, he heard Chen Lian, Xu Xiangqian, and Jiang Xianyun talk about him in private, and later saw the article "Mourning Jiang Xianyun" published in the newspaper, which once shocked him. also made him believe that Jiang Xianyun was in contact with Zhuang Jihua in private, and Zhang Guozhuo did not completely frame him. But after joining the Kuomintang, he knew that Jiang Xianyun was really falsely killed, and he also knew Zhuang Jihua's declaration of revenge, which made it difficult for him to understand, because in the ...... Over there, this kind of behavior must be a sign of irresoluteness and will be cleansed, but Zhuang Jihua did it, and he did it righteously and without scruples, which made him even more curious.

"Is there any news from Yu Riesling?" Zhuang Jihua asked again, Yu Jishi and Xiao Yisu set off the day before yesterday. He went to Mandalay to meet and had arrived at Yu Cheng Wan. At the same time review their preparations.

In Zhuang Jihua's heart, if Rangoon had been lost before the expeditionary force arrived, then Mandalay would be the first battlefield, so Yu Jishi and Xiao Yisu were the first to go to Mandalay to organize the troops that arrived one after another.

"The news I received in the morning was that Deputy Commander Yu and Chief of Staff Xiao had already boarded the bus in Lashio, and it was estimated that they would be able to reach Mandalay tonight, but the news from Captain Song that the situation in Yangon was very bad, and it was likely that we had lost it before we arrived. He regained his former sharpness and shrewdness.

Zhuang Jihua nodded slightly, this situation was expected by him, Song Yunfei and Zhao Hanjie entered Burma in mid-January, they entered secretly, mixed in the convoy, so they had reached southern Burma, and the troops were scattered in the vast area between the Salween River and Yangon.

"Captain Zhao reflected a situation, they prepared to ambush the Japanese transport convoy several times, but they were unsuccessful" He Wei said: "It's not that the Japanese defense is very strict, but not at all." ”

Zhuang Jihua turned his head to look at him, very strange: "Not at all?" What do you mean? ”

"I think what Captain Zhao meant was that the Japanese attack on Burma was carried out without logistical support, and they only had weapons and ammunition with them." There was a hint of incredulity and excitement in He Wei's tone.

"No logistical support!?" Zhuang Jihua's eyes widened in disbelief, from ancient times to the present. I'm afraid that there has never been an army that has fought without logistical support, perhaps, like the Red Army's Long March, but these are two completely different situations, the Red Army has no way, no, no, why is the Japanese army?

Zhuang Jihua didn't understand, and He Wei didn't understand either.

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