Chapter 1089 Comes with a Conspiracy

The British army with a brigade of more than 8,000 troops, held Myitkyina, an important town in northern Burma, and faced the Japanese soldiers who were aroused by Terauchi Shouichi's inner wildness like a hungry wolf and a mad tiger, they did not hold on for even a round, and hurriedly abandoned the outer positions of Myitkyina, retreated into the urban area, and thought of relying on the street fighting fortifications to support for a period of time.

As in the retreat from Rangoon and Bangkok, the British withdrew from the outlying positions, also in a panicked situation, without organization, without unified orders, and the various units went their own way, and the scene immediately became chaotic, and the British troops, who were slow and weak, were immediately overwhelmed by the tide of Japanese soldiers.

The tragic hand-to-hand combat began, and the Japanese soldiers had an overwhelming advantage, not only in terms of numbers, but also in terms of momentum, the Japanese soldiers with their bare hands, as long as they surrounded a British soldier, they would never let go, even if they were stabbed in the stomach with a bayonet and their blue and purple intestines leaked out, they were also clung to it.

With their fists, their teeth, and everything they could attack, the British soldiers were no longer fighting with men, but with a group of wild beasts that had lost their minds, and the cries of fierce cries, the "thud" of bayonets into the flesh, the "clang" of iron weapons colliding together, and the screams of the dying resounded in the outer positions of Myitkyina.

The Japanese soldiers went crazy, and completely vented the crazy killing ** in the savage mountains, even if the British soldiers knelt on the ground and raised their hands to surrender, they were also swarmed by the Japanese soldiers, and they were cut into a pile of minced meat in an instant, and a shock wave wave was wrapped in more than 2,000 British soldiers, and when the Japanese soldiers rushed to Myitkyina, they left behind the mutilated bodies of the British soldiers.

In two and a half days, a brigade of British troops, in Myitkyina, which had strong fortifications, only held out for such a short time, and ran to Mandalay in a panic, Myitkyina became a paradise for crazy Japanese soldiers, and a hell for ordinary citizens of Myitkyina, Terauchi Shouichi fulfilled his promise, and the 113th Division of the Japanese Army, which was the first to attack Myitkyina, killed and enjoyed in Myitkyina, and the other Japanese troops could only be outside the city, listening to the wild laughter of their companions, and watching with their eyes.

At the same time, Terauchi Shouichi received a new order from the base camp, "Send the military headquarters from the south of China to immediately consolidate the defense of Myitkyina and the line of West Satya from Myitkyina, and prepare to intercept the British troops retreating from Mandalay to the west, without having to participate in the campaign to attack Mandalay in the south, and rest in place, and the air force will drop enough ammunition and supplies for you," Terauchi Shouichi was very satisfied with this humane order of the base camp.

Laying Myitkyina, with a fierce and bloody bravery, if he goes thousands of miles south to the direction of Mandalay, his troops may not be able to reach the halfway, and more than half of the soldiers will have to die of exhaustion, and the Southeast Asian dispatch army is responsible for fighting dogs, and his own troops are responsible for closing the door, just in the central part of Burma, encircling and annihilating the British, the task is equally important, and it is more in line with the actual situation of his own troops, Terauchi Shouichi did not feel that the base camp despised himself.

Two days later, Terauchi Shouichi's troops spread along the line from Myitkyina to the Hukang River Valley, and the only way for the British to retreat west to India was completely blocked by the Japanese army.

Alexander realized the severity of the problem, before the fall of Myitkyina, he had given the order to the main force of the British army on the Sino-Vietnamese and Sino-Lao borders to assemble in Mandalay, since he retreated, not a single soldier would remain in Burma, and Alexander's only wish was to bring his little capital to the Puram area of India as intact as possible.

But Myitkyina was lost, Mandalay became a dumpling stuffing in the Japanese army's north-south attack, and the concentration of hundreds of thousands of British troops in Mandalay could not change the passive situation.

If you don't concentrate in Mandalay, where can you go? At least now, Alexander did not come up with a more ideal location than Mandalay, sitting in the city of sorrow, the Japanese blocked the north and the south, step by step towards the direction of Mandalay, Alexander really had no idea, he reported the dangerous situation faced by the British army in the Indochina Peninsula to the mainland in detail, at the end of the telegram, he said these words, "If there is no external force to break the Japanese north-south attack, Mandalay will be the last place of the British Empire in Southeast Asia." ”

General Alexander, who is accustomed to playing tricks and intrigues, did not make alarmist statements this time, deliberately scaring those high-ranking officials in the country, he really had no way, and Alexander also considered the construction of Chief of Staff Francis more than once, and took the initiative to go to the door to find the Chinese Tang Qiuli, but he was worried, and in his heart, he and he did not want to see the power of the Chinese enter Burma and Southeast Asia.

There is a saying in China, "It is easy to invite God and send God," and met Tang Qiuli once, Alexander did not know why, his wariness of Tang Qiuli was unprecedentedly great, and besides, not long ago, he also mobilized heavy troops, cooperated with the Japanese, and wanted to fight to the death with the Chinese, this U-turn, he went to ask for help, knowing that Alexander was thick-skinned enough, and he could not get over this psychological barrier.

Originally, in Dunkirk, the British army had lost all its main forces, and it was still difficult for the mainland to cope with the large-scale air raids of the Germans, and what frightened the British even more was that Hitler gathered a large number of troops on the French side of the English Channel, posing as if they were going to cross the sea at any time to attack.

The British held their homeland, the troops were stretched, and they had the strength to support Alexander, who was thousands of miles away, at this time, the British political arena had just undergone changes, Prime Minister Chamberlain, who was played by Hitler, was knocked out of power by the angry members of the House of Lords, and Churchill, the former British Minister of the Admiralty and the core backbone of the main war faction, came to power.

Churchill's skill and insight into the situation, Chamberlain could not catch up, he immediately grasped the key to the Southeast Asian problem, Alexander could not save himself, the country has no ability to save, the only possibility and hope, only the Chinese shot, the Chinese and the Japanese have been fighting for several years, and the hatred has long been difficult to dissolve.

Perhaps, Chairman Chiang of the Nationalist Government, is waiting impatiently for the British to take the initiative to speak, the squadron is on the Chinese side of the Indochina Peninsula, gathering hundreds of thousands of troops, which shows this very much, Alexander, a fool, the reinforcements that are close at hand, do not know how to use them, but instead complain to the country, I really don't know how he mixed up in the East for decades?

His wishful thinking is full of precision, that is, to use the squadron ** to fight in Burma and drag the Japanese army, so as to cover the withdrawal of the British army to India, which is the unanimous consensus of all British military and political officials, the British do not need to fight the Japanese in Burma, let alone have the obligation to clear the enemy for the Chinese and let the soldiers of the British Empire fight for the Chinese.

Churchill was extremely efficient, and the day after receiving Alexander's telegram, he sent a telegram to the British ambassador to China, Hubble. Idsons immediately contacted the Nationalist Government to hold preliminary consultations on the formation of a strategic alliance with Britain and the United States, and at the same time, the British Government formed a high-level delegation to China to make every effort to facilitate the matter.

Churchill was cunning and cunning, and he knew very well that with the current situation in which the British were being pressed and beaten by the Germans and taking care of themselves, in the minds of the Chinese leaders, I am afraid that the weight would not be enough, or in other words, Britain would make great concessions or lose its fundamental interests in Southeast Asia in order to promote an alliance with China.

Originally, the stormy offensive launched by the Japanese army against the British in the Indochina Peninsula did not involve the interests of the United States in the South Pacific such as Luzon, Mindanao, and the Sulu Islands, but the Japanese action against the British aroused great fear among the Americans, and they were very afraid that the Japanese would do the same and strike such a ferocious blow to themselves.

The Americans were in their sphere of influence, on a par with the British, and they thought that they were not enough for the Japanese to gnaw, and they originally planned to form an alliance with the British, but before they could put it on the agenda, the British were beaten to pieces by the Japanese, and they could not protect themselves.

The Americans, however, have reservations, and on the premise that their own interests have not been violated, they will not send troops to the Indochina Peninsula to participate in combat operations against Japan; the Americans are more insidious and cunning than the British, and they have a huge maritime trade with the Japanese, and the oil, steel, and other strategic materials consumed by the Japanese have never been interrupted in bilateral trade, and the Americans are reluctant to make huge profits.

Moreover, the Chinese repelled the Japanese in the Indochina Peninsula, or caused the Japanese to suffer heavy losses, and were unable to attack the Americans' sphere of influence, which was equivalent to relieving the Americans' concerns, and Churchill certainly knew what the Americans were fighting in their stomachs.

Fortunately, the British did not intend to fight to the death with the Japanese in Burma, as long as they used the squadron to drag the Japanese for the British army, so that the British could get out of Indochina and Burma, the goal would be achieved, and they would not care about the conditions that the Americans were half-concealed and wanted to cover up.

The so-called alliance is nothing more than the intersection of their respective political and economic or military interests, Britain and the United States have a request for the squadron, and in Chongqing, it seems to have been forgotten by the Chinese people, Jiang Zhongzheng, the supreme leader of the Nationalist Government, also because of Tang Qiuli's power and prestige, is like the sky, unstoppable, and depressed, always trying to find a proper way to change the current situation.

The British and Americans took the initiative to come to the door and threw flattering glances, and Commissar Chiang was surprised and ecstatic.

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