474 Battle of Myitkyina

The artillerymen craned their necks to see if the bastard cavalry of the 56th Division had gone the wrong way. In the smoke and dust, the cavalry had already rushed into the ranks of the enemy artillery, and in the complete unpreparedness of the enemy, a burst of slashing. Many tired Japanese soldiers sat on the cart and took a nap, and in order to prevent them from falling, they tied themselves with ropes, and cut their necks with knives and did not wake up. Some woke up and couldn't drag themselves out if they wanted to run for a while. There are also those who run fast, climbing up the mountains on both sides, but climbing has always been the weakness of the Japanese army, and they were swept down by the cavalry with * before they ran too far According to the deployment of Chu Tingchang, everyone neither pursued nor dismounted, and immediately threw * from the barrel of the Japanese guns and blew up these mountain guns. Eight mountain guns were destroyed, and everyone did not stop, the wounded withdrew to the same path, and the rest continued to rush forward like a whirlwind. The fleeing Japanese soldiers looked stupid, they had never seen the Chinese army move so quickly and organized. It is a pity that these 8 brand-new mountain guns produced in Showa 15 years were transported from Nagasaki to Nanyang after bumps, and only landed in early April from Yangon. For Japan, where industry is weak, it is undoubtedly the most frustrating story for the base camp.

At the same time, the transportation line in the rear of the Japanese army was also attacked, and several light infantry abandoned their horses and climbed over the undefended ridge, and found that Chu Tingchang was not in vain. These multi-channel troops barely need to adjust their positions, and they attack at the same time to carry out raid operations. Of course, there were still one or two teams whose military quality was too poor to find their targets on time, and they joined the battle on other sides nearby. The Japanese gave priority to pulling artillery shells, some ammunition and equipment were piled up on the roadside, and field hospitals were hastily set up on the passages, with almost no garrison. The only place where these advances were met with more resolute resistance was in the field hospital, where the wounded Japanese soldiers detonated with suicide tactics*, causing the heaviest casualties of the day.

The main force of Chu Ting's cavalry rushed to the next target non-stop, and Ma Qiang had been observing this place, which he described as the headquarters of the last enemy wing to return to the river. The enemy was packing up his things and preparing to cross the river, and the personnel were waiting for the small raft on the opposite bank to return, and all kinds of baggage ammunition were packed, loaded on the cart and prepared, ready to swim across (the Japanese horses were tall and could still swim across).

However, after hearing the sound of gunfire in the distance, the enemy officer was not alarmed and immediately launched an active defense, Nakasa, who was very clever and expected that it might be cavalry, immediately commanded the baggage troops to pull several carts in an attempt to use the carts of rice and as obstacles and fortifications, and sent machine gunners to set up machine guns, aiming their guns at the valley behind. Even such a simple defense could have caused a great loss to the cavalry rushing out of the pass.

Hearing that the cavalry team had arrived, Xu Chong and Ma Qiang decisively split up, Xu Chong shot at the top of the hill, killed several Japanese soldiers who were about to untie the horses on the cart, and knocked down the machine gunners who had already squatted on the cart. The Japanese pack horses were trained, and the general gunfire was almost unfazed. However, Ma Qiang, who had already run halfway up the mountain, threw a * with all his might, and it fell near the cart. A pile of flames suddenly erupted. The animals finally became frightened, raised their hooves, and ran around. The improvised fortifications that had just been completed were gone in an instant.

Rao Na Zhongzuo has been fighting for a long time and is improvised, and he has never encountered this situation. I saw several large cars in front of me running away left and right, and the door behind the queue was wide open. Raising his eyes again, in the billowing smoke and dust, the Chinese cavalry had already arrived in front of him, and it was useless to pull out his pistol again. The cavalrymen rushed into the headquarters of the enemy wing and slashed and killed indiscriminately.

The soldiers here are mainly baggage and communications troops, and they are almost unable to fight back in a hurry.

Unlike the U.S. military, where cooks were all dispensed with weapons and soldiers carried their own pistols, Japan's national strength was weak, and non-combatants often had no weapons. Several violent Three Hippos crashed away from the heavy soldiers, and some people rushed to the front and stabbed the Japanese Nakasa to death with Mosin Nagant guns. The cavalry of the expeditionary force used Soviet carbines with folding bayonets as a melee weapon for immediate assassination.

There were cavalrymen who came and threw * onto the carts that had already been packed, alarming the horses to run around, and there were also those who set fire to the enemy's ammunition. For a while, the ammunition boxes crackled, and the camp was in chaos. The whistle sounded behind the cavalry, which was the signal agreed by Chu Tingchang, and he repeatedly asked everyone to act in unison, not to fight, and everyone turned their horses' heads and galloped southward, rushing to the next target.

At this moment, the Japanese army on the other side of the river had won the victory, and the men and men of the 56th Division had rushed into Myitkyina, near the railway station, and engaged in a fierce battle with the new 22nd Division.

Traditionally, the Chinese military's resolve to resist would often crumble as its neighbors lost ground, as suspicion eventually prevailed. Therefore, the Japanese officers were very sure that the fire was almost over, and the victory or defeat would appear within an hour. But bad news came from behind, there was intelligence that the enemy cavalry had taken the rear road. On the artillery correction balloon raised along the river, the Japanese observer also saw that the situation was not good.

Shiro Yamazaki, the 55th Wing of the 18th Division, turned around and found that several ferries behind him were on fire and thick smoke was billowing out. It can be seen that it is not an accident, there is indeed an enemy attack, and it is well organized. He looked up at the flags on the balloons and reported that an enemy was behind him.

He began to speculate that it was American and British paratroopers in action. The United States and Britain are assembling a secret army of prison convicts in eastern India, led by a Zionist madman who has slaughtered Arabs in Iraq and Palestine (Wingate is not Jewish).

From this, the Yugoslav authorities judged that if the British army did not dare to use the Indians in the battle, it was likely to use special forces to carry out parachute special operations. Yamazaki thought to himself, it seems that those families are in action, what should I do now?

Detachment L, the predecessor of the British Special Air Service Regiment, slipped a hand near Magway and captured Major General Yoshiaki Kagesa alive, and this battle left a deep impression on Keiji Suzuki and broadened his horizons, and he began to speculate on some possible enemy tactics, which he wrote in the report. The front-line officers were misled by him into believing that the British paratroopers were ready to fight, when in fact Wingate himself had not yet reached India, and his troops were still on paper; As for the L detachment, it had long since returned to the Middle East to plan an assassination attempt against the pro-Axis Turkish Prime Minister Grachev.

Shiro Yamazaki did not give the order to stop the attack, he did not know how serious the situation was in the rear. But seeing that there is no artillery support, there is no more ammunition to bring in. He was a little anxious and was about to transfer the Sugimoto brigade, which had just crossed the river, back, but the river seemed to be inflated. The hateful two observers at an altitude of 90 meters took it upon themselves to simplify the flag, not reporting that the enemy had used cavalry, but only reporting the enemy, and letting the commanders below guess.

On the high mountains north of Myitkyina, Dai Anlan looked at the battlefield with a telescope, he stood for a few hours, watching the Japanese army put the last reserve into the battle for Myitkyina, and Chu Tingchang also sent a telegram, reporting that everything was going according to plan, and it was very smooth. In addition to the excitement, he suddenly itched with hatred, if those tanks and artillery were not destroyed, at this time, he could have fought a great annihilation battle and ate more than 10,000 enemies in front of him.

As long as those 150 and 87 mm cannons hit a base, the armored forces will rush again...... can rush the enemy to pieces, but unfortunately, thinking of this, he really hopes that Commander-in-Chief Du will never wake up.

"Herald, tell Yu Shao that the 96th Division is attacking from the left flank. In coordination with the attack launched by our 200th Division from the right flank, all units should move quickly and not let the enemy have time to adjust. Also, try to be as hidden as possible so that the riverside balloons don't see it. ”

"Yes." The Signal Corps went to give the order.

However, Dianla knew very well that the 96th Division had the weakest combat effectiveness among the three divisions of the 5th Army, and was only good at defense and step-by-step attack, not very good at surprise attacks, especially when the enemy on the opposite side did not know what kind of wind he was pumping, and he released an observation balloon in the morning, probably to bully the expeditionary force to blow up the anti-aircraft guns, so that the expeditionary force's condescending advantage was not great, and the action was easy to be discovered. He estimated that it should be certain that he would win more and less today, but he might not be able to surround the enemy, let alone eat it. If the enemy retreats south along the river, he may be able to retreat steadily. However, of course, in this way, the expeditionary force could quickly cross the river to the west bank, and then the two sides would go south across the river, and he would be sure to kill near the road controlled by the composite group. At that time, the 74th Army will make a feint near Lashio, which will be enough to get rid of the pursuers and go to India. At present, there is only one second-rate 31st Division on the Qingdunjiang front, and even the new 38th Division cannot stop it, so naturally it cannot stop itself. Of course, when I went to India, the responsibility for disobeying the order of the chairman of the committee must be my own, but for the sake of the livelihood of my brothers, this matter will not be taken into account.

Several mortar batteries began firing with the last shells, which immediately put the pressure on the attacking Japanese troops. Sensing that the situation was not good, Yamazaki raised his glasses to observe and saw that the mountains to the north were filled with smoke and dust, as if there were signs of troop movements, and soon the same news came from the artillery observation balloons. In addition to the professionalism of the observers, the report saw about 20,000 enemy troops moving on both flanks, depending on the situation.

Knowing that he had no time to delay, Yamazaki immediately ordered the attacking forces to shrink to the river, with their backs to the Irrawaddy River, so that the enemy could not surround him. Wait until the situation in the rear is clear before making an offensive or other decision. He was very sure that he was at least safe, and he would eat 10,000 Japanese troops at a time, unless there was Soviet firepower, and the Chinese army was still far behind.

Several wings of Japanese troops immediately switched from an offensive formation to a retreating formation and quickly retreated. The Chinese troops outflanked from both flanks and tried to encircle the Japanese, but unfortunately there was not enough firepower to cover the retreating group of enemies, and there were no tanks to quickly intersperse and divide the enemy formation, but several divisions acted together and still surrounded a brigade of the 56th Division that had escaped deep into Myitkyina.

The Chinese army has been planning to launch the main battle in Tonggu, which is flat in Burma, and after taking good opportunities, they retreated to Mandalay and prepared for another battle of Mandalay, but because of hesitation and did not succeed, they retreated to a desperate road and actually succeeded.