Chapter 1344 The First Battle of the Counteroffensive

The Japanese 43rd Division, which had sailed from Vietnam, was ordered to hold the barrier in eastern Burma, use the mountainous areas of eastern Burma to delay the offensive launched by the Allied forces in Burma, and lay the foundation for victory in the Pacific War. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The 43rd Division of the Japanese Army, together with the Cangye Mixed Brigade from Thailand, had planned to attack the Allied forces in Burma and seize all of Burma, but now they received an order to suddenly launch a defensive operation, and they did not even have time to prepare for the solid concrete fortifications.

Aerial reconnaissance undoubtedly brought the accurate offensive route of the Allied forces in Burma, and it was obvious that the Allies had prepared a division and a brigade of armored forces to advance rapidly, but unfortunately the terrain in southern Burma was mostly mountainous and hilly, which was not conducive to the rapid maneuver of armored clusters.

The commander of the Mitsui Division of the 43rd Division decided to ambush these advancing Allied armor and kill the Allied vanguard first, so that the Allies knew that although the Japanese forces in Burma were inferior to the Allied forces, they would still make the Allies pay the price in blood.

To combat armored forces, nothing is more effective than an artillery anti-tank direct-fire gun.

Mitsui concentrated all the direct-fire anti-tank guns of the 43rd Division and the Cangye Brigade, as well as the strength of the two wings, and ambushed the only road in northern Burma, and chose a section of the road with hills and high ground on both sides to set up an ambush circle, waiting for the advancing Anglo-Burmese 7th Armored Brigade and the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force to enter their encirclement.

All are not blind, all right!

Brigadier General Lauren, commander of the 7th Armored Brigade of the British-Burmese Army, and Major General Dai, commander of the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force, are well aware that the terrain in southern Myanmar is not suitable for tanks and armor to carry out operations at all.

After learning that they had been appointed as the Allied vanguard on the Eastern Front, both approached Stilwell and raised their objections, but both were blocked by Stilwell, the chief of the Allied General Staff.

In fact, Stilwell himself wondered why the fat man would ask him to let the armored forces of the Burma Allied forces serve as the vanguard along with the rogue detachment.

The terrain in southern Myanmar is very unfavorable for tanks and armored vehicles, and it is conducive to soldiers fighting on two legs.

The fat man didn't say why, he just asked Stilwell to get the command of the striker into his hands, and Stilwell didn't have to worry about the rest.

It must be unrealistic not to worry about it, after all, Stilwell does not know his plans.

But he didn't fail to find that the terrain in southern Myanmar was not conducive to tank and armored combat, and he could also imagine that the little devil would definitely use the terrain to ambush the British and Burmese troops who entered the mountains and hills of southern Myanmar.

The fat man had already studied the terrain thoroughly, and in this kind of mountainous and hilly area, the only one who was most suitable for fighting was Liu Yu's detachment.

Don't forget the predecessor of Liu Yu's detachment, the Flying Army, which is a mountain force, and it is all good at rock climbing and rappelling, even if it is a cliff, it can't stop their way.

He was not in a hurry at all when he threw the two armored forces of the Allied forces in Burma into the dangerous terrain of southern Burma, and that was because of Liu Yu's detachment.

After the mountainous and hilly areas of southern Burma, it will enter Thailand, which will be a flat environment, at this time the Seventh Armored Brigade of the British and Burmese Army, and the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force with the Liu Yu detachment, will sweep the little devils in Thailand.

The reason why the Japanese army's aerial reconnaissance only found the 7th Armored Brigade of the Anglo-Burmese Army and the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force was because the tanks and armored units took the road and the road, while the Liu Yu detachment advanced by the path in the dense forest in the mountains.

Therefore, the Japanese air reconnaissance did not find it at all, and the Liu Yu detachment used the cover of mountains and hills to protect the Allied armored forces on the road on the flank.

The two wings of the 43rd Division of the Japanese Army, which were preparing to ambush the Allied armored forces, had just entered the combat position and were preparing to lurk, when they were discovered by the scouts of Liu Yu's detachment.

Song Ming, the person in charge of the scout, immediately told the fat man about the investigation through the walkie-talkie.

The fat man, who had been prepared for all this, immediately ordered to use the scouts of Liu Yu's detachment to report the coordinates of the shelling, and guide the artillery of the 7th Armored Brigade of the Anglo-Burmese Army and the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force, as well as tanks, to shell the little devils who were in ambush on both sides of the road.

The hard-working little devil had just entered the ambush circle, and was still preparing, when he suffered a sea of shells.

Whether it was the 7th Armored Brigade of the Anglo-Burmese Army, the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force, or the Liu Yu Detachment, the artillery of the three sides desperately poured shells according to the artillery positions obtained from the reconnaissance.

"Boom, boom, boom......" The whole area was a rumbling explosion, and the little devils of the two wings lurking arrived at the blood mold, which was originally ordered to ambush the Allied forces, but instead attracted a bombardment from the Allied forces.

In the rumbling shelling, the fat man and Zhang Liguo, who led half of the team, relied on the loud roar of the shelling, crawling forward in the mountains and forests, slowly approaching the center of the shelling.

It is impossible to expect the artillery to do everything, otherwise what else would the infantry do?

Hearing the sound of dense artillery in the distance, and estimating that it was the position of the ambush, Mitsui, the division commander of the 43rd Division of the Japanese Army, was very satisfied with his arrangement, and went directly to the high place of the headquarters, raised the telescope to see, and the position of the intensive artillery bombardment was indeed the position of the ambush.

"Yo Xi!" Mitsui was very satisfied and praised that as long as the armored forces of the Allied forces were eliminated, even if the 43rd Division could not stop the attack of the Allied forces, then it would be safe to retreat to Thailand.

The devil had no idea that his ambush force had not yet begun to ambush the enemy before he was discovered by the enemy, and he also directed the artillery fire to cover his ambush troops through walkie-talkies.

The rumbling explosions of the diners, and the mushroom clouds rising from time to time in the telescope, are all his lurking troops suffering from devastating shelling, and they don't even have a chance to fight back, because they haven't found the enemy yet, how can they fight back?

This is not good for fighting in the mountains, turning a mountain beam or turning a hill, and you will not be able to find out the opponent's position.

In the mountainous areas with undulating heights and complex terrain, only the Liu Yu detachment, which is based in the mountains, can fully adapt to this environment.

For them, the mountains are equivalent to home, who can't go home and can't find the north?

"Chi Han, call Brigadier General Lauren and Division Commander Dai, their shelling can stop, and the fat man's team is about to attack!" The fat man ordered to Ji Han in a deep voice.

Chi Han hurriedly called Brigadier General Lauren in English and then in Chinese to call Senior Dai and Chuangda Fatty's order according to his meaning.

After a while, as soon as the shelling stopped, the fat man gave the order to attack directly.

On the mountain beams on both sides of the road, the soldiers who sneaked under the noses of the little devil hidden troops jumped out one after another, and launched an annihilation charge against the remaining little devil ambush soldiers after the shelling with guns......