Chapter 1087 finally tasted the bitter fruit

General Alexander, commander-in-chief of the British forces in Southeast Asia, finally looked forward to the first British troops to retreat to Mandalay, and in order to express his concern for these suffering soldiers, His Excellency the commander, with a large group of senior officers and staff officers, personally went to the outskirts of Mandalay to meet the officers and men of the 11th Infantry Brigade. ，

What can be seen makes Alexander angry and unbearable, is this the royal army that once swept across Asia and created the glory of the British Empire? No matter how you look at it, if it weren't for the uniform uniform, it would be similar to a group of refugees, the wolf bèi to the extreme, the troops were not scattered, but scattered.

Seeing their Commander-in-Chief, the eyes of the British soldiers, there was no excitement, only numbness and coldness, and the joy of the rest of their lives, in their opinion, a fragrant meal, a pot of cool drinking water, and a comfortable bed, were ten thousand times stronger than the old guy in front of them!

Seeing that he did not get the due response to his hospitality, the gaze in the soldier's eyes pierced Alexander's heart, and he was furious and said sharply to the chief of staff, Francis: "Order the commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade to run to meet me!" "I can't help but get angry, when did the British Royal Army, which has always paid attention to etiquette, become like this.

Chief of Staff Francis walked into the chaotic pile, and after a lot of effort, he brought a lieutenant colonel from the group of soldiers who were staggered and slumped on the grass, and when he arrived in front of Alexander, the lieutenant colonel saluted indifferently and said: "Report to Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant Colonel Galton, Deputy Chief of Staff of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the British Royal Army in Chiang Mai, report to you!" ”

Alexander's blue-gray eyes, staring at the lieutenant colonel like a hungry wolf, did not return the salute, but asked viciously: "What, is it the deputy chief of staff?" What about your brigade commanders and chiefs of staff? Why don't you come and see me? Lieutenant Colonel Garton replied mechanically: "Your Excellency, on the way to Mandalay, our brigade was bombed indiscriminately by Japanese planes all the way, and the brigade commander and chief of staff have been killed, and I am now acting commander of the unit. ”

Alexander swallowed and spit, holding his breath in his heart, he couldn't go up or down, he couldn't hold back his eyes, his blood was churning, the brigade commander and the chief of staff had gone to see God, and it was unnecessary and trivial to compete with an acting commander of the deputy chief of staff, so he waved his hand weakly and said: "Lieutenant Colonel Garton, it's been hard all the way, take your subordinates, go into the city to rest!" ”

Alexander wanted to put on a show, who knows, come and go, what he sees is just the tip of the iceberg of the current situation of the British army, those troops in the back, the situation is even worse than the 11th Brigade, this is only what he sees, what he does not see, the biggest threat to the British, the mortal danger of killing the British, is coming soon, I am afraid that when the time comes, Alexander will not even have the strength to be angry.

Terauchi Shouichi was trapped in the Savage Mountain in northern Burma, more than 200,000 troops, first the harsh natural environment, devoured the lives of countless soldiers, and then, was mass-killed by the Chutian attack column, several tosses, the Japanese army has been sharply reduced to less than 100,000 people, Terauchi Shouichi has been disheartened, ready to sleep in the Savage Mountain.

Even if the Chutian Column, according to the order of the division commander Tang Qiuli, stopped the endless and fierce attack on the Japanese army, Terauchi Shouyi, like all the soldiers who were tortured by the Savage Mountain, almost lost the ** to survive, thinking that he had no hope of getting out of this vast primeval forest in this life, and getting lost had become commonplace.

Just when the Japanese soldiers were desperate, the grace of Amaterasu and His Majesty the Emperor finally shone on these people who had been abandoned by the empire, and the guide team composed of three British soldiers and local Burmese finally found the team directly under the headquarters of the dispatch army, described as withered Terauchi Shouichi, and when he heard the news from the captain of the guard, he didn't bother to open his eyelids.

Such an example of hope and then disappointment, in the Savage Mountain, I have experienced too much, more than once caught the Burmese who entered the mountain, thinking that there is finally a way to live, seeing hope, but after interrogation, it turned out to be the Burmese who got lost in the Savage Mountain, and the same as the experience of the Japanese Imperial Army, but it was a little better than the life of the Japanese soldiers.

Terauchi Shouichi was noncommittal, but nodded dispensably, but when he saw the British inside, his eyes were like dead ashes, and finally lit up the light of life of hope, this damn savage mountain, not long after entering it, all the radio stations lost contact with the outside world, and the outside world did not know any news, the future was bleak, and his eyes were black.

When the British translator explained his intention in stumbling Japanese, Terauchi Shouichi sighed, and a few muddy tears flowed down his wrinkled face, and he understood that the empire did not abandon him, and this must be the emperor's majesty, and after making heavy concessions to the British, the British would take the initiative to find themselves.

The news quickly spread among the surviving Japanese troops, and the Japanese soldiers were like morphine, and their feelings were high, and Terauchi Shouichi immediately issued an order, "All the troops that can be contacted, immediately move closer to the direction of the team directly under the headquarters, follow the British guide team, and walk out of Savage Mountain," how many troops can be contacted, Terauchi Shouichi didn't count in his heart, but the opportunity was rare, and it was impossible to wait any longer.

Four days later, the remnants of the Japanese southern China Army, under the guidance of the British, finally walked out of the Savage Mountain that had tormented them for several months, when they saw the wisps of smoke in the villages of northern Burma, the Japanese soldiers almost went crazy, knelt on the ground, howled and cried, and Terauchi Shouichi was even more tearful, for more than 100 days, dealing with death every day, facing the ruthless killing of the Chinese people.

Terauchi Shouichi did not live up to the trust of His Majesty the Emperor and brought out more than 90,000 troops, although there were more than 100,000 soldiers of the Japanese Empire, and were finally buried in the primeval forest of Savage Mountain.

Without waiting for the Japanese soldiers to recover their strength, they were glad that they had survived the catastrophe and ushered in the attack of the British troops, but unfortunately, Alexander arranged the main force of the British army on the Sino-Vietnamese and Sino-Lao borders, and confronted the independent division troops, which was a British army in northern Burma, but more than 8,000 people.

It should be said that the fighting will and combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers were quite good, and in the savage mountains, there was a wave of evil fire that was holding back, although they were weak and swayed when they walked, and they lost all their heavy weapons, and they were not afraid of the British attack.

Maybe it's the so-called "mourning soldiers will win", right? After more than three hours of fighting, the British dropped hundreds of corpses and retreated in a hurry, and the Japanese paid the price of several thousand people, which was quite difficult for a tired army that had just come out of the savage mountains.

The Japanese soldiers rushed down the mountain, grabbed whatever they saw, food, clothes, shoes and hats, weapons, everything they could see, they were like treasures, and they were reluctant to give up.

It was really a farce, the troops sent by Alexander to block the Japanese army from getting out of the Savage Mountain, not only did not eliminate the weak and remnants of the Japanese army, but instead became a transport team to replenish supplies for the Japanese army.

After filling his stomach, Terauchi Shouichi ordered the radio station, immediately contacted the base camp, reported the news of the blocking force, received a telegram from Terauchi Shouichi from northern Burma, Emperor Hirohito and the senior generals of the base camp, ecstatic, Terauchi Shouichi was good, and brought out more than 90,000 people, General Ito Yanzaburo, was worried that he could not encircle and annihilate the Anglo-Burmese army retreating to northern Burma, this strange army suddenly killed, and inserted a knife near Myitkyina, so what should be the result?

Emperor Hirohito and the senior officers of the base camp were almost happy to draw, and the tens of thousands of treasures that fell from the sky immediately ordered Southeast Asia to send military aviation units to give Terauchi Shouichi's troops a large amount of air supplies, and only give Terauchi Shouichi's troops a day's rest and recuperation, and then immediately launch the Myitkyina campaign.

To tell the truth, even Emperor Hirohito himself felt that he was not very kind, so he personally sent a telegram to Shouichi Terauchi in his own name.

At the end of the telegram, Hirohito wrote, "Terauchi-kun, the soldiers of the empire, in any case, have the will to fight, and you and the southern dispatch of China are even more exemplary among them, quickly occupying Myitkyina and blocking the way for the British army to retreat west to India, which is of decisive strategic significance for the empire's war in Southeast Asia. ”

After reading the telegram written by His Majesty the Emperor, Terauchi felt that this life was worth it, and he was at ease even if he died, and he only rested for a day and a night, and the remnants of the Japanese southern dispatch army of more than 90,000 people, with a fierce force, launched a crazy attack on Myitkyina.

Alexander's foolish act of sending a guide to lead the Japanese army out of Savage Mountain finally sounded the death knell for the British army assembled in Mandalay.

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