Chapter 1118 The Drinking Dunjiang that Can't Pass

The commander-in-chief of Japan's Southeast Asian Dispatch Army, General Ito Yanzaburo, like a hungry wolf that smelled blood, grabbed hundreds of thousands of British and Burmese troops, starting from Mandalay, one step at a time, with flesh in his mouth, and now, with blood-red eyes, staring closely at the Yudun River, the most insurmountable natural obstacle on the road to Myitkyina.

So, following Mandalay, Libao Grand Canyon, the south bank of the Yindun River, has become a battlefield of fighting, in one side is being chased and beating, one side is eager to solve the battle on the battlefield, there is a third-party force, in Libao Zhiyindun River, this more than 100 kilometers long front, faintly ready to go, coldly watching the flesh and blood, into a pot of porridge battlefield.

Watching the corpses of the British all over the field, watching the Japanese offensive in waves, watching the two sides twist together, although the casualties paid were unequal, but in such a large melee of hundreds of thousands of people, the Japanese did not pay some price, and they could not solve the battle smoothly.

This unit is the troops of the five brigades commanded by Yu Guanghan, chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Corps of the Independent Division, since entering this line of position, in Yu Guanghan's ears, there is a fierce sound of gunfire every day, but this gunfire has nothing to do with him, although he is so anxious that he is angry, he also sent a telegram to the division commander Tang Qiuli with vague intentions, but the intention is obvious.

In addition to receiving the answer that "the soldiers do not move, watch from the sidelines, and violate military law", the orders he received in the future were to continue to lie and wait, and Yu Guanghan was uncomfortable, so he took the members of the command headquarters and five brigade commanders to the road leading to Myitkyina every day to observe the situation.

It really opened his eyes, the British who ran out of breath and lost their armor, and then Yu Guanghan shook his head, chasing the Japanese who were fierce and stumbling, and he saw him smack his teeth and flowers, which can be regarded as an eye-opener, I have never seen a wolf bèi unbearable, I have never seen such a troop that vomits blood.

After a while, a group of Britons who had lost their armor ran over, and after a while, there was another group of little devils who seemed to have taken aphrodisiacs, chasing after them for a few days, and they were all in the same situation, not only a few brigade commanders were tired of seeing it, but Yu Guanghan also lost interest.

After returning to the hidden place, Yu Guanghan pulled several brigade commanders to deduce on the sand table according to the route and method of the British retreat, as well as the route and tactics of the Japanese pursuit, and came to a very simple, but unpredictable conclusion, the strategic retreat carried out by the British army, in fact, evolved into a major rout.

There is only one road from Mandalay to Myitkyina, and the rest is either a rugged mountain road, or it needs to pass through the primeval forest, if the British arrange different troops on this only road, and carry out continuous blockade, not only will they not be chased by the Japanese so badly, but they will also make the little devils pay a heavy price, every step is a rain of bullets shooting head-on, and there are mines and explosives everywhere.

Along the way, there are many locations suitable for ambushes and blockades, in Yu Guanghan's eyes, there are no less than a few hundred, in any case, hundreds of thousands of troops, can not be beaten so badly by little devils, a brigade commander even said: "Chief of Staff, if our troops encounter such a situation, as long as I take my brigade, I can withstand the little devils and retreat to Myitkyina, along the way, I can eat tens of thousands of little devils, and guarantee not to die many people, do you believe it?" ”

Including Yu Guanghan, several other brigade commanders absolutely believed in the words of this brigade commander, and if they were replaced by that brigade, they would not be able to let the little devil fight like such a bear, so he couldn't understand at all that the British were defeated all the way from Mandalay to the south bank of the Yudun River, and they also left more than 200,000 people, who were slaughtered by the Japanese army.

This Englishman and the little devil are not opponents of the same level at all, except for the slightly brilliant desperate efforts in the Libao Grand Canyon, the others are not worth mentioning, and in the end, he said to several brigade commanders in a summary of words: "What kind of battle is this fighting?" One just ran desperately north, not even letting go, and the other chased along the road, like a duck, did you see it, a few squadrons of little devils, dare to hit thousands or tens of thousands of Britons, this battle, there is no end. ”

After receiving the war report from Yu Guanghan and Chutian, each from different angles, Tang Qiuli, who had arrived at Myitkyina, carefully marked the location of the Yudun River on the map, and the life and death of the British were on this big river, how many people could be crossed, that was Alexander's last capital.

However, according to his judgment, if Alexander does not take some measures, the British are drinking the Dunjiang River, and the end of the annihilation of the whole army is inevitable, Tang Qiuli himself also secretly praised Ito Yanzaburo's way of reinforcements, this Japanese commander, is not simple?

Knowing that he was fighting Myitkyina, and that the remnants of Terauchi Shouichi were not the opponents of the independent division at all, even if he came for reinforcements from a long distance, I was afraid that how many troops would come would have to be set up here, and it would also affect the Battle of Mandalay, so he simply did not move, biting Mandalay to the death, and after receiving Terauchi Shouichi's telegram, he would plan and let the British easily break through from Mandalay.

The so-called "encircling three and missing one, annihilating the enemy in the field," it seems that Ito did not read the Chinese military book less, and the ambush in the Libao Grand Canyon can be said to be a wonderful stroke, but the British burst out to Ito's unexpected combat effectiveness, and only then did they have an unsatisfactory result, seizing the last natural barrier of the Yudun River, ignoring the scattered British troops, and strictly ordering the troops to penetrate violently.

Using all his air power to blockade all the crossings of the Yindun River, bombing bridges and roads along the way, delaying the retreat of the British army, and never giving up without killing all the British, Tang Qiuli saw all of Ito's campaign deployments, and one thing he was not sure about was that if some or most of the British army successfully crossed the river from the Yindun River, would Ito continue to pursue north?

If Ito orders his troops to cross the Cindun River and continue to pursue the retreating British troops in the direction of Myitkyina, then Ito will have the confidence and strength to compete with the troops of the independent division in the area south of Myitkyina, or in other words, he will have the determination and confidence to solve the Indochina Peninsula problem with a single blow by annihilating the remaining strength of the British army and attacking north with a victorious division.

If Ito had stopped on the south bank of the Yudun River with the aim of annihilating most of the British army, his next move would have been to turn around and attack Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam in the southeast, or to turn south and attack Sumatra and Kalimantan through the Guò Malay Peninsula corridor.

In addition to the Kwantung Army, Ito's Southeast Asian Dispatch Army is currently the largest combat group of the Japanese outside of their homeland.

Bearing Emperor Hirohito's ambition and ambition to open up the territory of Southeast Asia, he could judge the movements of the Japanese by keeping an eye on the Ito group, but Tang Qiuli did not want Ito to continue to invade the north, at least not to cross the Yudun River immediately.

With the strength of the independent division currently concentrated in northern Burma, the eight brigades directly under the corps, and Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps, which has 11 brigades, can be used for mobile operations, but only eight brigades, with more than 200,000 troops, can face more than 400,000 Japanese troops, and the battle can be fought, but in terms of the use of troops, it is more difficult.

It is also not in line with Tang Qiuli's consistent style of playing, "concentrating superior forces, and completely annihilating the Japanese army in every battle", the Gangao Mountains are a good place to use troops, so the main purpose of the campaign deployment is to frustrate the sharp spirit of the Japanese army, so that Ito will retreat in the face of difficulties, as for the total annihilation or the elimination of most of the Japanese Southeast Asian dispatch army, Tang Qiuli has not been crazy enough to that kind of Cheng dù.

The pattern of the Burmese battlefield has been basically formed, the British retreat from Burma, dying has become a foregone conclusion, and the next thing is the contest between the independent division and the Japanese army sent to Southeast Asia, in order to make Ito feel threatened, on the evening of June 10, that is, the night when Chief of Staff Chang Feng, expressed a different view on the riot of Japanese prisoners of war.

Tang Qiuli ordered the Feng Jiwu Niangziguan Garrison Corps, which was busy clearing out the remnants of the Japanese and British, and Ma Chaoyang's Southeast Mobile Corps, which were busy clearing out the remnants of the Japanese and British forces in the southeast of the Indochina Peninsula, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and immediately marched in the direction of Burma.

In the order, Tang Qiuli particularly emphasized that all troops should march in concealment and not be discovered by the Japanese army as the principle, and take the important places on the west bank of the Salween River as the assembly area, among them, Feng Jiwu's troops, with Taunggyi and Ma Chaoyang troops in central Burma, and Leigu in southern Burma as the central point of strategic development, extending to both flanks.

In this way, in the Burma region, there were 30 brigades of the independent division and more than 400,000 troops, and when Ito Yanzaburo saw this formation, he had to weigh his own weight if he wanted to fight, and then the corps of the independent division slowly pressed the Japanese army and forced the Japanese to the side of the Americans, which was the real purpose of Tang Qiuli.

Originally, I wanted to have a long talk with Chang Feng, but there were other important things, which were delayed, Tang Qiuli had to find another opportunity, and this matter was put on hold for the time being.

Ito's strict orders had a noticeable effect, and the pursuing Japanese troops, supported by tanks and artillery, rushed in the direction of the south bank of the Yudun River, and the British, who were already in disarray, were even more confused by this ferocious punch.

Francis took great pains, braved the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese planes, and had just sorted out the scattered troops, and sent out soldiers looking for the place to wade across the river, but before they returned, not far from the rear, suddenly there was a loud sound of gunfire, and a terrible news spread among the soldiers of the British and Burmese army, "The Japanese have rushed to a place less than five kilometers away from the river!" ”

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