Chapter 1333: Mandalay!
On November 6, the first division of the new 38th Division conquered Xinlong Kaba in one fell swoop; The 1st Division of the New 38th Division, which carried out a feint attack on the front of the temple embankment, also forcibly crossed the Taiping River on the 8th and headed south along the Miba Highway; After 10 days of bloody battles, the main force of the new 38th Division successively captured Momak, Mansi and other outlying strongholds of Momo.
Compared with the attack of the New First Army in the area of Bamo, Feng Ye is now very sad, being sent behind enemy lines to conduct guerrilla warfare in a foreign land, he feels that there are enemies everywhere, and there may be devils' eyes everywhere.
Although the Kachin have explained to Feng that Burma's attitude is now, and that Burmese leader General Aung San has secretly formed an anti-*** coalition, Myanmar is now not an enemy of the Allied forces.
"It's just grass on the wall!"
Feng Ye silently recited in his heart, he could never forget the pain that the Burmese brought to the Chinese soldiers during the first expedition.
Feng Yi chose Mandalay for his first stop, he did not separate the special regiment, in order to better complete the mission, he even only brought more than 800 veterans to carry out this mission, and the rest of the troops were still training at the Ramgar base.
The town was the territory of the Japanese army, and Feng Ye could only hang out in the wilderness, but fortunately, the rainy season had passed, and the situation in the wilderness was not so bad.
"Commander, there is a situation."
Rhoda ran into the thatched house, a little anxious.
"Don't worry, take your time."
Feng Ye is not in a hurry at all, the railway has been blown up by them a few sections yesterday, and even the railroad tracks have been buried, unless the devils repave the road, the train they support northern Myanmar will not be so easy to pass.
"Zhou Kui has just reported that a small squad of the Japanese army swept a Kayah village, and more than 100 Kayah people were all killed; The devil did not retreat to Mandalay, but continued to sweep north, and Zhou Kui asked if he wanted to ......"
Rhodabi made a motion to wipe his neck.
"What's the matter with us? Does that have anything to do with our mission? ”
"Of course, if it's a Chinese village, I'm sure I care, as for the Burmese, this is atonement for their own actions, if it weren't for them, the Japanese could easily occupy Burma here, and it would lead to tens of thousands of our Chinese soldiers dying here?"
"Don't be nosy, just rest well! There are also missions in the evening. ”
After Feng Yi finished speaking, it seemed in his heart that this was a trivial matter, and the pain that the Burmese brought to the Chinese soldiers could not be erased by time.
"Oh, then I'll reply to Zhou Kui."
Rhoda nodded, touched his head, and realized that he seemed to be a bit nosy.
Of the more than 800 commandos who jumped and parachuted, Feng Ye only brought five company commanders, and all three battalion commanders stayed in the camp for training; Of course, these five company commanders are all old men, Luo Da and Liang Hao will definitely not be able to escape, and the rest are Zhou Kui, Zhang Dajiang and Li Rui; Basically, each battalion drew a company commander.
The five companies, except for the seventy-five people in Feng Yi's direct squad, each company has only one hundred and fifty people, which is the configuration of the two operational squads, special tasks, and Feng Ye has restored the squad mode during the operation.
And at this time, whether it is Mandalay or in Yangon, the Japanese army has gone completely crazy, the commander of the Burmese Front, General Kimura Hyotaro, has received information, the Burmese don't even want the basic face, and now they are not only not cooperative, the anti-*** alliance they have secretly formed has been known by the Japanese army, the Japanese special high school is not a dry meal, and it is not a monolith within the Burmese defense army, many people are selling out the news, and the special high class spies are exchanging interests, this exchange may be money, flesh, or land and houses, and so on.
The Japanese army's crushing defeats in the Hukang and Mong Gong valleys had added a heavy weight to the betrayal of the Burmese, and with the defeat of western Yunnan, Kimura knew that the time for the Burmese to openly betray was not far off.
Since the feudal dynasty in Myanmar, Buddhism has flourished, and there are more than 10,000 stupas and monasteries in the country at the most.
Burma's stupas and monasteries are magnificent, a large number of Buddha statues are gilded to show the majesty of the gods, even the British and Chinese expeditionary forces did not dare to attack the stupas and monasteries here when they failed, the crazy Japanese don't care, since the failure is a matter of time, from the rainy season, the Japanese army began to attack the stupas and monasteries, collect gold dust, and then transport it back to Mandalay for processing, processed into gold bars and then transported back to Yangon, brought back to Japan by submarine.
The reason why it is processed in Mandalay is that Mandalay is a large city in the middle of Myanmar, and it is a railway hub, so the Japanese can easily transport it.
Not only that, but the main thing is that Mandalay itself has a very strong excavity, and there is the last imperial city of the last independent dynasty of Myanmar; Always at the center of Burmese culture and Buddhist practice, it would also be the last target of the Japanese, as Mandalay would be in a state of fire and blood as soon as the gold dust from all over the neighborhood arrived.
"Bang, bang......"
"Da Da Da ......"
"Puff puff ......"
Not only Mandalay, but now the whole of Myanmar is bleeding, the devils in northern Myanmar are suffering the wrath of the allies, the soldiers of the Japanese army are bleeding, and in other places, it is the various ethnic groups in Myanmar that are bleeding.
In Mandalay, Mandalay Hill, Mandalay Palace and Mahmuduni Stupa are the only places in Myanmar that have not been exposed to war.
Mandalay Hill is located in the northern part of Mandalay City, formerly known as Rakshasa Mountain, and is a famous Buddhist holy site in Myanmar. It was not destroyed by artillery fire in the Battle of Mandalay because it was not very high, only 236 meters above sea level.
Although Mandalay Hill is not high, there are 231 large stupas and monasteries and more than 1,000 small monasteries on the mountain. There are stone steps from the east, south and west to the summit of Mandalay Hill.
The flames of war seem to have avoided this place blessed by the gods, and the daily Sanskrit sounds on the mountain are bursting, and the sound of chanting is constantly surrounding the mountain.
One of Li Rui's combat teams is now conducting reconnaissance near Mandalay Mountain, not because they don't want to go up the mountain, but because they are afraid that they won't be able to get down if they go up, because there are Japanese patrols around the entire mountain, and he doesn't know why.
"If there was no war, this place would be so beautiful!"
Li Rui's two squads are in the north of Mandalay to reconnoitre, behind enemy lines, intelligence is very important, five companies, Feng Ge's side left a company plus a squad directly under the team, of course, the company left behind is not fixed, today it is the turn of the reconnaissance company to leave emergency and repair.
"Bang, bang......"
The firing sound of the Japanese Type 38 rifle broke the silence and faintly echoed in Li Rui's ears.
"Group three, what's going on over there?"
Li Rui frowned, the gunfire was a little far away from him, it should have been more than a kilometer.