Chapter 819: The End of the Japanese Army in Burma
Yangon, Myanmar.
In the Supreme Headquarters of the Japanese Army in Burma, there are many senior officers of the Japanese army, and now, the war is unfavorable to the Japanese army in Burma, and the little devils are anxious, and the commander of the Japanese army in Burma is convening a meeting of a group of senior officers of the little devils.
The little devils who held the meeting, in addition to General Takasu Shiro, there were several Japanese lieutenant generals, and there were more major generals, at least seven or eight, and the lowest military rank attending the meeting was the Japanese army's Dazuo.
These Japanese officers were depressed, and the atmosphere in the conference room was very dull and depressing, and the current battle situation, of course, these senior Japanese officers were clear.
The meeting has been going on for a long time.
With a gloomy face, Takasu Shiro gave the first order, ordering the Japanese troops in Mandalay to break through. There are still more than 100,000 Japanese troops in Mandalay, and they are now being surrounded by Chinese troops, and if they do not break through, they may be completely annihilated.
Originally, Takasu Shiro wanted to order these Japanese troops to retreat south, but as soon as the meeting began, he received a report from the Mandalay side that the road for the Japanese army to retreat south in Mandalay had been cut off by the Chinese army, and in desperation, Takasu Shiro could only break through.
At present, the Burmese Japanese army has been annihilated in large numbers, and the troops are empty, and it is impossible to send reinforcements to reinforce or respond, and the Japanese army in Mandalay can only break through.
Now, this group of senior Japanese officers is discussing the situation in Yangon, as well as the situation in Burma as a whole. The situation in Yangon is also not good, the Chinese army has landed in large numbers southeast of Yangon and is attacking Yangon, which has reached the outskirts of Yangon.
The Japanese officers in the meeting could even hear the faint rumbling of artillery outside, which was the Japanese army being shelled by the heavy artillery group of the 12th Army.
The situation is not good. Takasu Shiro had a gloomy face, and was listening to the advice of a group of high-ranking Japanese officers, but these people did not have any better countermeasures, and after thinking for a long time, Takasu Shiro gave the order to abandon Rangoon and retreat westward.
The attacking Chinese army was already in the city, and the sound of artillery could be heard here, and these people knew that Rangoon would be occupied by the Chinese army sooner or later. At present, there is only a little hope of breaking through to the west. The west is the weakest part of the Chinese army, and if you go west to India, you can still join the Japanese army in India.
The Japanese army in Southeast Asia also had more than 100,000 troops in India and occupied a certain area of India. But. These Japanese forces were now met with resistance from local Indian forces and Allied forces. The two sides are basically in a state of confrontation.
Hearing Takasu Shiro's order to abandon Rangoon and break through to the west, the Japanese officers were silent, and these people thought to themselves. This is completely helpless, the Chinese army is too strong.
Outside the city of Yangon.
While tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Rangoon were retreating alternately, several heavy artillery groups of the 12th Army had completed the artillery bombardment, and a large number of soldiers were attacking the city under the guidance of many chariots.
Three days later.
Rangoon was completely occupied by the 12th Army, with less than 10,000 Japanese troops breaking through to the west, and the rest of the Japanese forces either being annihilated or surrendered by the fighters, and the 12th Army captured more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Rangoon.
In Mandalay.
The battle in Mandalay was almost over, and the Japanese army in Mandalay still failed to complete the breakout, and in the hopeless situation of breaking through, most of the Japanese army chose to surrender, and a total of more than 60,000 Japanese troops surrendered to the soldiers.
At this point, the Japanese army in Burma was basically annihilated by the Chinese army, except for nearly 100,000 Japanese troops in Tonggu, there were basically no Japanese troops in the whole of Burma.
Late November.
Tonggu was also heavily surrounded by the Chinese army, and after a little resistance, the Japanese army in Tonggu surrendered to the Chinese army, and about 10,000 Japanese troops in Tonggu were killed, and nearly 80,000 became prisoners of the Chinese army.
In addition to the 600,000 or 700,000 Japanese troops in Burma, nearly 300,000 were captured by the Chinese army, and the remaining Japanese troops, less than a few tens of thousands, were scattered in some other cities in Burma.
After learning that the Burmese Japanese army was completely annihilated by the Chinese army, these Japanese troops either went to Thailand or India, or they hid in the mountains and forests and became bandits.
On the Yunnan-Burma Highway.
A long procession was slowly advancing, a group of ragged, drooping Japanese prisoners, who were marching towards China in a long line with no end in sight.
The captives were all tied up with long ropes, and in the middle or on both sides of the procession, you could occasionally see a few large trucks full of heavily armed warriors whose task was to escort the captives home.
Japanese soldiers captured in Burma will be subjected to forced labor in China for at least five years, and if they behave well, they may be released after five years and returned to the Japanese mainland. Of course, most of the captured Japanese officers, as is customary, would probably have been shot.
At present, there are a lot of Japanese free laborers in the whole of China, and these free laborers have participated in the construction of a large number of roads, railways and other infrastructure, and even engaged in arduous mining work.
This marching team had been walking on the Yunnan-Burma Highway for several days, and the Japanese prisoners were basically too tired to have any strength, and no one thought of resisting or escaping.
A Japanese prisoner of war was dejected and listless, and these Japanese soldiers knew that their future was at least five years of hard labor.
Contrary to the mental state of the Japanese army, the soldiers on the big truck were all in high spirits, holding AK-47 assault rifles, looking at these prisoners, seeing the dejected appearance of these prisoners, many soldiers laughed from time to time.
These soldiers are all from the 28th Group Army, the 28th Group Army used to be the national army, these soldiers had a lot of dealings with little devils during the Anti-Japanese War.
"Platoon commander! I can't even think about it! Someday, we can capture so many little devils! ”
The second lieutenant platoon commander also smiled happily: "This is thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, Little Japan has done too much evil, and its qi has long been exhausted, look, now it has become our prisoner." ”
Several soldiers around listened to the words of their platoon commander and laughed very happily.
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Although the war has ended, the soldiers have not been idle for a period of time, and a large number of materials looted by the Burmese Japanese army, as well as the weapons and ammunition of these Japanese troops, must be collected one by one.
At the same time, as the Japanese army in Burma has been basically wiped out and the whole of Burma is about to return to autonomy, the Chinese government will support a new Burmese government to administer the whole of Burma.
Comrade Wang Haiyang, commander of the 1st Group Army, in accordance with Zhang Yunfei's instructions and as the plenipotentiary representative of the Chinese side, met with members of the new Burmese government in Yangon today.
The members of these new governments are basically relatively influential political figures in Myanmar, and they are all pro-China political figures, not pro-China, and they will certainly not receive the support of the Chinese side, and of course it is impossible to form a new government.
Wang Haiyang looked at the core members of the new Burmese government who were sitting neatly, and Wang Haiyang began to convey China's demands to everyone.
Seeing that Wang Haiyang had officially begun to convey China's demands to everyone, the dozen or so members of the new Burmese government sat up straight, respectfully on the one hand, and listened attentively and carefully.
In fact, the Chinese government's demands are very simple: the newly established Burmese government is fully autonomous, China will basically not interfere in Myanmar's internal affairs, and China will only set up one observer post in the core leadership of the Burmese government.
The Chinese government has also allowed the Burmese government to set up its own army, but the size of the army is limited, and it is currently tentatively set at 300,000 people, and if it is necessary to expand the size of the army, it must be approved by the Chinese government, and the weapons of the Burmese army can be purchased from the Japanese weapons captured by the Chinese army.
In addition, a piece of land of more than 100 square kilometers will be set aside in Mawlamyine for the permanent garrison of the Chinese army, and China will station about 20,000 to 30,000 troops there, and will also build a large military port and a large airport there as one of the supply ports and stations of the Chinese navy. The military expenses of the Chinese garrison here were, of course, paid by the newly established Burmese government.
The Chinese side did not ask too much, you must know that it was the Chinese army that made great efforts to eliminate the Japanese army, and the new Burmese government basically sat back and enjoyed the success, and soon the new Burmese government signed a formal agreement with the Chinese side.
In this way, the war in Burma came to an end, and China had one more vassal country.
Not long after the Japanese army in Burma was wiped out, the Chinese army in Vietnam was also making great progress, and had already eliminated many Japanese troops in Vietnam, and the Chinese army had already crossed Hanoi and continued to advance southward, and it was only a matter of time before the Japanese army in the entire territory of Vietnam was wiped out.
Early December.
Several large army groups in Burma began to move eastward into Thailand, Laos and other countries, and will also advance to the Malay Peninsula, with the aim of destroying the Japanese army in the whole of Southeast Asia.
As for the Japanese army in the Philippines, the Chinese army had no intention of intervening, because an American army had already landed in the Philippines.
After the Chinese army entered Thailand and Laos, some of them remained in Thailand and Laos to continue to destroy the remnants of the Japanese army, and some of them went south and entered the Malay Peninsula to eliminate the Japanese army in the whole of Malaysia.
There are quite a few Japanese troops in Malaysia, reaching nearly 500,000, second only to Burma, in addition, the Japanese army Southeast Asian Provisional Military Government is also set up on the Malay Peninsula.
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