"We can't withdraw yet, the headquarters has completed the final encirclement of the Japanese Sixth Division, the armored detachment and the large army are on the way to Mandalay, our rash retreat will bring a lot of pressure to Mandalay" Cao Yong rubbed his bearded chin and thought, "In this way, let's fight and withdraw at the same time, try to buy some time for the Mandalay side, to say that this is a quick intersperse, the Japanese army is definitely not our opponent"

Half an hour ago, Cao Yong had just received a telegram from the mercenaries who had returned to the rear of Donghu that the 1,000 Burmese guerrillas who had been dispatched to block the 22nd and 56th Divisions had been routed from the front by the superior forces of the Japanese army due to the blind carelessness of the commander. The 22nd and 56th Divisions of the Japanese Army, which had arrived with the momentum, were less than half a day's journey from Dongoo, and although the infiltrator squads that accompanied the team had tried their best to delay the destruction of roads and the laying of mines, the Japanese troops were so numerous that they would arrive at Dongoo before dark at the latest.

Although Mandalay has been controlled by the thunder, only 3,000 airborne troops currently control Mandalay, and the airborne troops lacking heavy weapons and equipment are by no means the opponent of more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and Cao Yong, who needs to make a choice, is extremely difficult. "Captain, telegram from headquarters" Just when Cao Yong was wavering, Zhao Zhi's army headquarters finally sent a telegram.

"Haha, okay, I'll see how long the Japanese army can jump this time" Cao Yong read the telegram, the confusion on his face disappeared, replaced by a look of excitement, "Inform those Burmese to retreat with us, don't bring irrelevant things, you must rush to Shilipo before dark" Cao Yong's three mercenaries who were good at fiddling with mine explosives were left alone, and several people gathered together and whispered for a while.

The Burmese guerrillas' retreat gave hope to the hedgehog-like Sasaki United, who suffered the worst defeat of his career in Toungoo, but that didn't stop her from being a man with brains. The Burmese must have their reasons for retreating, otherwise they would not have withdrawn like this, watching the Burmese swagger and withdraw in front of them, the Sasaki Wing, who had been thinking hard, finally waited for the belated 22nd Division at lunchtime, and Sasaki, who had been thinking hard, understood the reason for the Burmese retreat.

"Division commander, it's all my fault, I'm willing to apologize" Sasaki, who looked frustrated, knelt in front of the commander of the 22nd Division, Miji Oshiroto, and between the two of them was a short knife that had been unsheathed. Oshirodo Sanji did not expect that the Sasaki Wing, which is known as the most capable of fighting in the 22nd Division, would be beaten by the Burmese natives in Toungoo like this, and the Sasaki Wing, with a full strength of 3,000 people, only had less than 50% of the soldiers left to continue fighting, not only that, but the light combat vehicles assigned to the Sasaki Wing were destroyed, and even the mortars of the Sasaki Wing were robbed by the Burmese natives.

Looking at Sasaki's appearance of kowtowing to himself, Oshiroto Sanji's heart was full of sourness, he was not wondering if it was a mistake for him to appoint Sasaki as the wing leader of the 84th Wing in the first place, his sourness came from the news that the Sixth Division had been completely annihilated by Thunder in Xibu. The news that the 6th Division had been completely annihilated by thunder was received yesterday by the 22nd Division, and it was precisely because of this news, which was no less than a major earthquake, that the 22nd Division and the 56th Division, which had already landed and completed the assembly, were belated.

Oshiroto Sanji never underestimated the strength of his opponents, and it was precisely because of Oshiroto's cautious character that the 22nd Division, a type B division, survived on the Chinese battlefield. As the commander of the division, Miharu Oshido understands the combat effectiveness of the 6th Division, and compared with the 6th Division, which has made great achievements, the 22nd Division, which is less than half the number of people, cannot be compared at all. For the defeat of the Sasaki United, Oshirodo Sanji did not want to punish Sasaki, because he knew that among the Burmese natives who fought against the Sasaki United, there must be Thunder's troops involved.

"Okay, let's take it as a lesson this time, send your wounded to Yangon for treatment, your wing will act as the rearguard of the division from now on to ensure the safety of our rear road, you go down first" Facing Sasaki, who was almost crying bitterly, Oshirodo Sanji just sent him away with a few words of understatement. According to the deployment of the base camp, the Japanese troops that landed in Burma to fight included the 6th Division, 18th Division, 22nd Division, 31st Division, 33rd Division, 55th Division, and 56th Division, a total of 130,000 troops in seven divisions, and with the Japanese troops stationed in Burma in the early stage, the number of Japanese troops in Burma will reach as many as 160,000.

Unfortunately, due to the continuous bomb attacks by the Burmese natives in Yangon Harbor, the troop carriers belonging to the Japanese Navy have been sunk and injured as many as half, and the only Japanese troops that have completed the landing in Burma are a wing of the 6th Division, the 22nd Division, the 56th Division, and the 55th Division, which have been surrounded and annihilated by minefields, the 18th Division and the 31st Division are still watching seabirds from the sea, and even the 33rd Division is still stranded in the Philippine port and is waiting for the arrival of the troop carriers.

Oshiroto Sanji, who never underestimated the strength of his opponent, knew that the 22nd Division and the 56th Division were not Thunder's opponents even if they were combined, so he kept delaying the trip, not for anything else, he just wanted to wait for the arrival of the 18th Division and the 31st Division. Due to the destruction of the 6th Division and the defeat of Sasaki's wing, the 160,000 Imperial troops in the base camp plan to contain the Thunder are now a little more than 130,000 at most, and Oshirodo Sanji really does not have the courage and determination to face the Thunder.

"The division commander, the Yanagawa Search Wing of the 56th Division reported that the resistance forces on the front line of Toungoo had retreated, and that Toungoo was now occupied by the Yanagawa Wing" The adjutant of Oshirodo Sanji walked in from outside the tent. The Liuchuan Search Wing of the 56th Division set out this morning, and the Burmese indigenous resistance forces that had come to attack the 22nd Division last night had disappeared from Taungoo without a trace, and they should have been scared away by the combined forces of the 22nd Division and the 56th Division.

"Oh" Oshirodo Sanji was confused by the adjutant's narration, and the difficulty of Sasaki's wing on the front line of Toungoo shows that the Burmese natives who are against it are not so easy to deal with, so why did the search wing of the 56th Division go out and the resistance army in Toungoo disappear without a trace? Is there any conspiracy hidden in this? The doubts in Oshido Sanji's heart just flashed and he denied it, and Sasaki himself said that those Burmese natives are good at night raids, and they don't seem to play any conspiracy when they play against Sasaki United.

Unlike the 22nd Division, which was transferred from the Chinese theater to the Philippine battlefield, the 56th Division from Kurume was specially aimed at the tall US troops from the day it was formed. The division's entire battle series consisted of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery units, automobiles, motorcycles, and infantry regiments, marching with great speed and powerful firepower, and was a unit from Kurume in northern Kyushu, known for its combat effectiveness, and was hailed by the Japanese army as the king of jungle warfare.

Half of the Yamazaki Field Artillery Wing and the Yamaguchi Engineer Wing belonging to the 56th Division sank to the bottom of Yangon Harbor with the blown up troop carriers, and the large-caliber artillery equipped by the Yamazaki Field Artillery Wing also suffered heavy losses. Masao Watanabe was not a frizzy man like Sasaki, and he had the same idea in mind as Miharu Oshito, and his 56th Division would never rush out to attack northern Burma before the follow-up troops landed.

The attack of the Yanagawa Wing was only a test for Masao Watanabe, and the 22nd and 56th Divisions were the troops that landed in Burma behind the 6th Division, and now the invincible 6th Division has been wiped out in the past. The Burmese Dispatch Force Command has been urging the 56th Division, which is good at field warfare, to speed up the march, and before the Dispatch Army Command and Base Camp are not angry, Watanabe Masao needs to make a positive response, and the Yanagawa Wing's attack is a good opportunity. Taking Donghu can prove that the 56th Division is not passively avoiding the battle, and failing to take Donghu is a tentative action, which also shows that the 56th Division is actively looking for fighters.

"Order the Yanagawa Wing to expand the search area, and make sure that all the resistance forces have withdrawn from Tooo" After receiving the information sent back by the Yanagawa Wing, Watanabe Masao did not order the 56th Division to enter Tooo, but carefully and prudently ordered the expansion of the search area like Oshirodo Sanji, and only after repeated confirmation would Watanabe Masao order the troops to enter Tooo. The south of Mandalay is mostly plain terrain, and the 56th Division, which is good at battlefield and jungle warfare, cannot give full play to its full combat effectiveness, and Masao Watanabe will not release the full combat effectiveness of the 56th Division before entering northern Myanmar.

After repeated confirmation by the Yanagawa Wing, before dinner, the 22nd and 56th Divisions finally entered the Taungoo defensive line, which had been abandoned by the Burmese guerrillas. "It seems that I have thought too much" Looking at the standard British-style bunkers and trenches on the Toungoo defensive line, a thought rose in the hearts of Miharu Oshiroto and Masao Watanabe almost at the same time, the British have ruled Burma for many years, and it is understandable that the so-called Burmese guerrillas have learned something from the British army, and they can see that these Burmese natives are as stupid as their teachers, the British, looking at the trenches on the side of these wooden planks and wooden ladders.

The bloodless recapture of Tooo made both Sanji Oshirodo and Masao Watanabe forget about the defeat of the Sasaki Wing here, and in their opinion, the Burmese natives who used the British trenches were as vulnerable as the British, and as for the thunder, it was left to the 18th Division that landed in Burma to deal with.