, Chapter 1085 is useful to keep

Tang Qiuli, who turned on all the intelligence systems and paid close attention to the war situation in the Indochina Peninsula, saw the danger that more than 400,000 British and Burmese troops were about to face in the chaotic way of retreating from the British army, to be precise, and sent a live target to the Japanese planes.

There was no air force cover, no anti-aircraft fire, no orderly organization, and no troops to act as a rearguard, and every Anglo-Burmese army unit was bent on fleeing for its life, and no one was willing to stay behind to serve as cover.

On the day of the Japanese attack, the British Royal Air Force in Indochina was withdrawn faster and more neatly than the army, and more than 200 planes of all kinds rushed to India like a swarm, and even before Alexander the British commander-in-chief in Southeast Asia gave the order to retreat, the British Royal Air Force troops stationed in Indochina were already flying into the air of India.

That is to say, without receiving the order of the supreme military commander, the British Air Force troops stationed in Indochina withdrew from their battlefields without authorization and fled for their lives early.

After Tang Qiuli came to this conclusion, his face did not have much joy, but seemed a little preoccupied, so someone immediately informed the British Embassy of the division commander's judgment to the British Embassy in China, which was also in line with the division commander's assumption that the British did not want the British to lose their ability to confront the Japanese army as soon as possible.

Even a few young staff officers should send the independent division aviation unit and the fighter unit of the Southern Flying Group to penetrate deep into Burmese airspace and voluntarily provide air cover for the withdrawal of the British and Burmese troops to Mandalay.

Chief of Staff Chang Feng glanced at the division commander Tang Qiuli, obviously wanting to say something, without waiting for him to speak, Tang Qiuli raised his head, glanced at the staff officers who proposed to build a strange look, and said a few words coldly, "There is no need, no reason, and no obligation to inform or help the British, you remember, this is an extremely selfish and pragmatic people, until the mountains and rivers are exhausted, they can't let go of the British gentleman's figure, and it is not only stupid, but also too early to come forward at this time." ”

After speaking, he turned around and left the command headquarters, leaving a few staff officers looking at each other, not knowing if the division commander was angry, Chang Feng said to a few staff officers: "When you propose to build yourself in the future, try to think more than you can and say the wrong thing, the division commander will not blame, but if you don't look at the object, show sympathy indiscriminately, and lack understanding of other opponents, the division commander will be very unhappy," After even mentioning the lesson, Chang Feng chased Tang Qiuli's back and followed out.

The two slowly walked in the small courtyard full of western Yunnan style, Chang Feng said: "Division commander, the situation of the battle has changed, the speed of the British army's retreat has exceeded our expectations, the original assumption, the British army and the Japanese army, in Burma and Thailand, several large-scale battles have occurred, but there has been no occurrence, moreover, Alexander ordered all the British and Burmese troops to take Mandalay as a staging place, and the British abandoned the Indochina Peninsula and fled west to India. ”

There is another sentence, Chang Feng did not say, the division commander first let the British and the Japanese, fight for both sides, the plan of fighting for the profit of the fisherman, with the rapid defeat of the British army, I am afraid it will be in vain, Tang Qiuli stopped and said to Chang Feng, "Chang Feng, if the British army successfully withdraws to eastern India and can preserve its strength, it will not be conducive to the future situation in the Indochina Peninsula, the British will not be willing to lose such a big interest, once we have enough capital to call for it, we will fight with the British in Indochina, it is inevitable, This must be prevented. ”

Chang Feng thought about it seriously, he admitted that although he had been by the division commander's side for so many years, sometimes, he still couldn't keep up with the train of thought, the independent division had not yet sent troops to Southeast Asia, and the division commander was already thinking about the problems after the defeat of the Japanese army, he raised his head and said, "Division commander, that can only make the Anglo-Burmese army assembled in Mandalay unable to retreat west to India." ”

After speaking, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Tang Qiuli and said, "Shouichi in the temple in the Savage Mountain? Tang Qiuli laughed and said, "Okay! Chang Feng, the hero sees the same thing, that is, he used Terauchi Shouichi to go out of the Savage Mountain, occupy Myitkyina, block the road to India, and give Alexander in Mandalay a head-on blow, and Alexander, who is facing the end of the mountain, still doesn't come to the door to ask for help? ”

An hour later, in the Savage Mountain, Colonel Chutian, the commander of the Japanese attack column of the Terauchi Shouyi Department and the leader of the special operations detachment of the independent division, received a new order from the division commander Tang Qiuli, "Captain Chutian, your unit immediately stops the annihilation of the living forces of the Japanese army, and releases the captured British and Burmese joint guide team on the spot, and then the troops get out of the way to the front of northern Burma and follow the Japanese army into northern Burma to stand by." ”

Chu Tian couldn't help frowning, in addition to not understanding the division commander's new order, he was also somewhat dissatisfied, the attack column was fighting smoothly, and after ten days, at least more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers were sent back to their hometown in Japan by the special combat team members in various ways.

Counting the previous non-combat attrition of the Japanese army, Terauchi Shouichi tossed in the Savage Mountain for nearly two months, from the more than 260,000 soldiers who had just entered the Savage Mountain, and now there are no more than 1120,000 people left who can breathe and take half of the dead, a loss of nearly two-thirds.

Chutian's attack column and kill all the Japanese troops is only a matter of time, but at this critical moment, the division commander ordered the troops to let go and let the old devil Shouichi Terauchi and hundreds of thousands of little devils leave.

That night, the Japanese troops, who were disturbed by the elusive attack column and did not know whether they could see the sun tomorrow morning, ushered in a rare night without bullets, shells, and explosives.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, General Ito Yanzaburo, was very happy in the face of the situation in which the Imperial Japanese Army was advancing in various battlefields in the Indochina Peninsula, and in addition to being very happy, he also expressed extreme anger at the speed of the advance of the various troops.

In the view of General Ito Yanzaburo, the speed of the army's attack is not fast enough, since the British have lost the ability to resist, and the Imperial Army troops are exempted from fighting for one city and one place, they should not delay too much time, as the supreme commander of the Japanese army in the direction of a theater, Ito Yanzaburo's strategic vision will naturally not be too bad.

The various Imperial Army units attacking and advancing, closely following the retreating footsteps of the British, pursued closely, and all the directions of pursuit gradually pointed to the same place, Mandalay, an important city in central Burma, and Mandalay, the transportation hub connecting northern and southern Burma, General Ito Yanzaburo immediately judged Alexander's purpose.

It's not good, the British want to flee west to India, and the big fish in their hands will slip away like this, how can General Ito Yanzaburo be willing, and besides, with hundreds of thousands of British troops fleeing to India, relieving themselves and regrouping, there is absolutely the possibility of counterattacking Burma, which is a huge threat to the rule of the Japanese Empire in the Indochina Peninsula and even the entire Southeast Asian region.

What's more, after letting go of the British, how to explain to His Majesty the Emperor, it is true that the city is conquered, and the British are defeated, but the British army in the Indochina Peninsula has not been able to encircle and annihilate the British army, for General Ito Yanzaburo, it is the biggest defeat, and it cannot be regarded as a complete victory, and the ambitious General Ito Yanzaburo will never end the war of the Japanese Empire in the Indochina Peninsula in this way.

Therefore, the General Headquarters of Japan's Southeast Asian Dispatch Army gave only one order to all Japanese troops, "Hurry, hurry, no pause, no rest, keep pursuing quickly!" Until the encirclement of the British army, "the poor Japanese soldiers, on the road of Burma, which remained almost primitive, spread their feet and chased until they almost vomited blood."

Although the Japanese soldiers were victors, they were even more victorious with the aftermath of victory, their morale was high, their fighting spirit was like a rainbow, and they were rolling northward, and they could endure more hardships than the British soldiers, and the British could throw away everything that hindered the escape, such as tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, light and heavy machine guns, and even rifles, as long as they could run faster, the British were willing to throw away anything.

But the Japanese soldiers can't do it, they still have to fight, and they don't have a lot of equipment on their bodies, because the roads are difficult to walk, and the logistics and supplies can't keep up at any time, and each Japanese soldier has to carry seven days of supplies, and the miscellaneous ones add up, and the weight of the Japanese soldiers is more than ten kilograms more than that of the British soldiers, and even if they run and vomit blood, they can't be faster than the British.

Senior General Ito Yanzaburo, you can't just remove all the commanders from their posts for this reason, right? His Excellency, the anxious commander-in-chief, looked at Mandalay in central Burma, swallowing his saliva, but it was more than a thousand kilometers away, and there was no way to do it in a hurry.

Major General Morishima said: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, send the military aviation unit to request the mission, and I guarantee in the name of the Imperial Japanese General that our planes can delay the British for at least three days, and make these British Yankees, every step back, pay the price of blood." ”

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