Chapter 282 **
The formation of the expeditionary force does not mean that it can immediately enter Burma to participate in the war, the army in the north must be transferred to the south, and those who are fighting the Japanese army on the battlefield must be withdrawn, and in addition to the time of running all the way to Yunnan, in short, it will definitely not be able to participate in the war in the short term, as for how short this short term is, it depends on the efficiency of the British, such as the transfer of the concession to the two sides and the re-demarcation of the border must be solved first.
Of course, the Japanese will definitely not stop and wait, within a few days the Japanese army on the southern front has entered the Indian army in Chittagong, and at the same time the Japanese army, which was stimulated by a series of crazy victories, finally fell the butcher's knife on the poor French, and the Japanese army on the Guangxi front was never able to break through the defense line in Guibei, so they simply stopped the offensive and turned to the defense, and then drew out two divisions and drove into Annam amid the cheering songs of the monkeys.
It should be said that at this time, France still had some strength in the Indian side, but the problem was that Japan was pulling the signboard for the monkeys, coaxing those guys to be extremely excited, and the Japanese army had just entered the north and south of Vietnam, and the governor Breville couldn't take care of the fire alone, so how could he still have the energy to resist the Japanese army, and as a result, the French army was driven from the north to the south by two divisions of Japanese troops.
At this time, the Japanese Navy was not willing to take all the credit to be taken by the army, and the battleships Kirishima and Hiei in Singapore, plus the two aircraft carriers Akagi and Ryuchamp, all went north, first cleared the French navy in the Far East, and then led the marines to Saigon, and successfully landed and occupied the largest French stronghold in the Far East under the response of the monkeys.
After the fall of Saigon, the French here were in bad luck, because they had always been more honest, and the Japanese didn't want to deal with them very much, but the monkeys who gave them a hand, these guys were oppressed by the criminal colonizers for so many years, and licked their feet for half a century. Now that he has suddenly turned over and been liberated, it is not good to vent, the whole of Saigon has almost become a hell on earth, countless French people have been brutally tusha, as for women being QJed, this is not worth mentioning, and the monkeys who killed the red eyes will not be French or not in the end. Anyway, as long as it is a Caucasian race, it can be done, and the whole of Saigon will be killed, and the streets and alleys will be full of dead bodies.
The monkeys are playing so hard, as the current ruler of the city, it will be difficult for those Japanese soldiers not to be tempted, especially when they see those black and thin bodies, singing on the noble Caucasian woman, the softness in the hearts of the Japanese soldiers is finally touched, and these guys unceremoniously drag the monkeys away for themselves. The addition of the Japanese army made this carnival immediately reach gaochao, and in the end it was not even limited to the white people, anyway, the whole city was completely slaughtered, like throwing a piece of bloody fresh meat into the wolves, how could the hungry wolves who bit it could tell whether the delicious food in their mouths was their own kind or not, and the chaos spread to all the inhabitants of the city, in fact, by the time of the final count, the monkeys killed even more of their own compatriots than the French killed by them.
Saigon Da Tusha shocked the world, according to the estimates of diplomats of the United States and the Soviet Union in Saigon. In the chaos that lasted two full days, at least 50,000 people died. Of these, 30,000 were Annamite and the remaining 20,000 were expatriates from other countries, but the Japanese captured and then shot more than 2,000 so-called baotu in order to deal with public opinion, especially to avenge the killing of at least 200 American citizens.
This also had a very bad consequence, as Governor Breville, who had personally commanded the battle against the Japanese at the front, was on his way to retreat to the Khmer. In retaliation for the great tusha of Saigon, the French army was ordered to leave no chickens and dogs in all the villages of Annam, and of course the anger of His Excellency the Governor was understandable, since his wife was tragically killed in Saigon.
The Governor's wife was killed while fleeing to the U.S. Consulate in Saigon, as she was close to the U.S. Consulate. So how a dozen monkeys and Japanese soldiers killed her Roulin was seen very clearly by the American consul who was hiding behind the window with a gun.
Immediately after the fall of Annam, Laos and Khmer also fell into the hands of the Japanese, Governor Breville led the remnants of 5,000 French troops to disarm the Siamese on the Siamese border, these guys did not suffer any nuedai, and it didn't take long for them to be picked up by the French Zhengfu after being imprisoned in the concentration camp, and after returning to France, the Governor of Breville made a bloody and tearful accusation against the Japanese army, and the French swore to punish the Japanese in Canbao, of course, they just talked about it, and the Germans were about to slam the door, How could they still have the energy to manage the Far East at this time, and when France was destroyed, no one cared about this issue.
And at this time, after fulfilling most of their promises, the British finally waited for the Chinese expeditionary force with tears in their eyes, but at this time they no longer needed the expeditionary force to reinforce Burma, because the whole of Burma had fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, and now the British asked the expeditionary force to attack the Japanese flank and ease their attack on India.
This expeditionary force is completely different from the original history, to be honest, Yang Feng has been very strange before, what did the bald guys think when they sent troops to Burma in history, let a group of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and even Northwest people go to Burma to fight, even if his descendants are stronger in combat, but the Yunnan army and the Gui army are not bad! His generals would not have brought people into the Savage Mountains if they had a little tropical life experience!
But this time it's completely different, you may feel that the things are in hand, and it doesn't matter whether the British live or die, so the skinhead guy is not very interested in fighting in Burma, as for Ren'anqiang or something, there is no need to mention it, the British have already blown up all the oil fields when they fled, and they are almost to the sea, how can Japan fight India if they really want to occupy Ren'anqiang, in this case he is completely making a bunch of miscellaneous cards to fool the British.
But this is also crooked, the Yunnan army needless to say that the Yunnan people are fighting at their own doorstep, there is no problem of environmental adaptation, the third army is actually the continuation of the Cai Yi era to aid the Guangdong Yunnan army, the main generals including the army commander Tang Huaiyuan are all from Yunnan, and the graduates of Wutang and Marshal Zhu are also brothers, and the other Sichuan troops are no strangers to this environment, and the real northerners here are Yang Feng's people, but the combat effectiveness of these people is enough to make up for the lack of adaptation to the environment.
The route of the expeditionary force is no different from the original history, in fact, there is no other route to choose from, entering Burma on a Yunnan-Burma highway that has just been built and has lost its effect, for the sake of insurance is the first to enter Burma is the 60th Army of Lu Han's department, his army has all accepted the change of clothes made in Chongqing, but because it was withdrawn from the Guangxi battlefield, the number of recruits is relatively large, and the combat effectiveness has dropped greatly, and as soon as it leaves the country, it is blocked by the 35th division of the Japanese army in the area of Bamo and Lashio.
Shang Zhen moved his group army headquarters forward to Mangshi, but he didn't have much good way to face the battle situation on the front line, Burma is not the north, and the heavy firepower advantage that the northern armies are proud of here can't be used at all, if it is on the plain, he really doesn't pay attention to the special division of this kind of triple wing, and he takes the heavy artillery to bombard for an hour, and then the infantry charges over, but not here, except for mountains or mountains, in addition to trees and trees, heavy artillery can't play a range advantage at all.
"Brother Yongheng, we have to think of a way to reduce our losses, even if we can break through the Japanese defense line if we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid we will have at least more than 10,000 casualties." He said to Luján with a frown.
"Commander, there is no other way to fight in this place, but to exchange human lives, and as long as you can take Ba Mo and Lashio, it is definitely worth losing 10,000 people." Lu Han said very indifferently, he was at the door of his house, so naturally he drove the Japanese army as far away as possible, as long as there was no danger in Yunnan, let alone him, even his soldiers didn't care how many people died.
"Don't worry, I'll ask Brother Yang, if he can agree to one thing, then our battle will be easy." They are willing to fight hard to defend their hometown, but Shang Zhen is not willing! The soldiers' pensions under him are very high.
Yang Feng of Beiping soon received a telegram from Shang Zhen, the content of which was very simple, allowing the large-scale use of poison gas bombs in future operations, especially the new type of poison gas that was now being manufactured in Beiping.
Moreover, Shang Zhen also made it very clear that if poison gas was not used, then the expeditionary force would need to be prepared for one-third of the casualties, and the Japanese army had now deployed six divisions in northern Burma to block the expeditionary force, and had built perfect fortifications, so the casualties were absolute.
"One-third, this is absolutely not possible, then we will have tens of millions of soldiers' pensions alone, and there is nothing to gain in that place in Myanmar except for some jadeite, so we will lose a lot of money." Upon hearing this casualty rate, none of the old warlords agreed.
"Then let them use poison gas?" Yang Feng said with a little hesitation, after all, he still has to pretend to be a gentleman outside, and it is not a big deal to use it occasionally, but if it is used on a large scale, it will easily affect his reputation.
"Yes, what are you afraid of, the Japanese dare to engage in tusha in Saigon, let's use poison gas Maybe those foreigners will be happy!" Fu Zuoyi said.
That's right, then use it!
Yang Feng immediately sent a telegram back to Shang Zhen, agreeing to use sarin gas, but it is also necessary to let all armies prepare for anti-poison gas, and everything else is easy to say, that is, you have to be careful of the Japanese army's use of mustard gas, and now the most effective thing in the hands of the Japanese army is this thing, and it is not easy to defend against this kind of erosive poison gas.
Shang Zhen knew this very well, and he urged Chongqing to quickly transfer hundreds of thousands of sets of gas masks and protective clothing to the Dian army and the Zhongyang army that were not equipped with these things, and then transferred the 32nd Army to replace the 60th Army, and then fired at least 500 sarin gas shells at the Japanese defense line. (To be continued......)
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