At the beginning of March, the climate in Myanmar gradually became humid and rainy, especially in the southern coastal areas, the rain gradually became abundant, but fortunately, it has not yet reached the rainy season, and the current weather is more rainy for two days and sunny for three days. The impact on the march of the troops to fight the war was not too great.

However, this year's three southern provinces of Burma are destined to be unpeaceful, and because the Japanese army is reluctant to abandon the land in its hands, it has sent and assembled four additional divisions and two mixed brigades, as well as some second-line garrison brigades, totaling about 100,000 troops, as well as several destroyers, frigates, and the cruiser Ligon, which docked at Yangon Harbor as a sea-based artillery base.

Terauchi did not intend to defend himself, feeling that the cost of doing so was too great, and that he should withdraw his existing military forces from the quagmire of war in Burma in order to protect the more resource-rich Malay Peninsula and Indonesia in Southeast Asia.

After all, the Chinese Expeditionary Force lacked the ability to cross by sea, and if they wanted to invade Malaysia from Burma, they could only pass through the narrow peninsula Kerat Isthmus, which was a steep mountain and a large area of primeval jungle for the army to move.

The strength of the US and British fleets in the Andaman Sea region of Burma is not very strong, and there are no large warships here, even if they use transport boats to transport Chinese soldiers, it is an extremely difficult matter, and it will be planted in the hands of the Japanese navy.

Terauchi Shouichi's idea is to delay, and one more day is a day, and to preserve his own strength as much as possible while attritioning with the enemy, so that new fighters can appear and then counterattack.

Because he has understood that the empire has basically reached its twilight years, the situation in the country is becoming more and more severe day by day, the repeated bombing has displaced the civilian people, they are almost unable to eat, people who have been starved to death and bombed are everywhere, and they have to tighten their belts to support the country's military construction, and the current twilight does not know how long it can last.

It is a pity that the Japanese base camp is not willing to accept this plan, let alone admit defeat, they believe that if they lose Burma, it will aggravate the decline of the Pacific theater, so that the US army and the Chinese people will form a situation of encirclement on all sides, and then they will really be powerless to return to the sky.

Many unsober high-ranking officers even radically said that if they wanted to fight a decisive battle with the enemy in Yangon, they must not insult the original intention of the spirit of bushido, let alone directly abandon the Burmese land that had been in operation for a long time.

They may feel that relying on the cooperation of the army and navy artillery, not to mention defeating the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which is gaining momentum, it is still more than enough to hold on to southern Burma, and as long as they can hold out for three months, the opponent's logistical supply will naturally be self-defeating, and there may be a chance for a counteroffensive at that time.

Terauchi Shouichi is not stupid, the purpose of sending ships such as the Tone is not only to increase the long-range firepower of Yangon, but also to withdraw the remaining soldiers through ships and ships at the last moment, if it is really irreparable, so that the entire army will not be wiped out.

However, this plan will not be carried out unless it is absolutely necessary, and he will not say to the outside world that the purpose of sending the navy to support the army is to leave a way back for the army, and the madness and conceit of the Japanese do not allow them to be cowardly before fighting, and think about how to retreat before fighting, and if this idea is known to the base camp, it will be court-martial.

At present, the commander of the Burmese Front is the so-called robot Hyotaro Kimura, who is also one of the officers who strongly demanded a decisive battle with the Chinese.

This guy is also one of the three women and four fools of Hideki Tojo, and the title of the robot is not a compliment, but a joke that he is like a machine that only knows how to mechanically execute orders, but regardless of the consequences of doing so, he has no opinion.

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To put it bluntly, the master let me eat, and I will eat it, but it is such a dog that even eats, and when he was the commander of the 32nd Division in Shandong, China, he also turned over a lot of crimes, and later went to Myanmar and indulged his soldiers, creating the Yangon Massacre, and was called the butcher of Burma.

At the beginning, Terauchi Shouichi had a lot of opinions about his appointment as commander of the Burma Front, but after all, he couldn't resist the thigh of the base camp, and he still let this simple-minded dog thing grasp the command of the Burma Front.

The ambitious Kimura Hyotaro just took office, like a big wave, ready to take the initiative to attack and make a big expedition to China

The army launched a counteroffensive, but some time ago before this battle plan began, it was bombarded by the newly formed Katyusha rocket artillery division and hundreds of artillery pieces of the heavy artillery brigade.

The situation on the battlefield changed much faster than expected, and as an "artillery brick maker" on the Japanese side, Kimura Hyotaro still had some insights into the use and deployment of artillery, and he was confident that he had planned to use the coordinated operation of artillery and infantry to inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but the result was ...... After seeing the terrifying firepower of the Chinese people now, he immediately coaxed, this artillery firepower is not at the same level, and it is a fart.

Immediately after that, the expeditionary force gave him a three-sided flower, not only the troops in the north of Yangon attacked in an all-out way, but the artillery fire was completely overwhelming, and suddenly the back of the butt was exploded again, and the Dongkua Railway Station and the Keyan Railway Station were bombed one after another, and the massive materials hoarded there were destroyed.

What's even worse is that the Chinese actually fought from the sea, advancing from the coast of Donggua to the northwest, and several important areas fell one after another, and they were about to hit their faces.

This was not the end of the story, and on March 6, the command suddenly received a report from the garrison of Yinrawaddy Province that a large number of Chinese troops had been found in the northern part of the province moving southward.

The enemy is large in numbers, with a lot of heavy equipment, and fighter planes in the air to escort them, they sent several reconnaissance scouts that were discovered and annihilated by the enemy, and the exact situation is difficult to detect, but one thing is certain, the target of this force is Yinrawaddy Province.

As the rear granary of the Japanese army, Yoonywady Province is the province with the most dense population, the most concentrated arable land, and the most densely navigable rivers in Burma, and it is also a major rice-producing area and fishing area.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force's heavy blow can be said to have hit the Japanese to the core, and to some extent, the importance of Yinrawaddy Province is higher than that of Rangoon, and if it is lost, it will be meaningless to hold on to Rangoon.

This is the largest river in Myanmar, the place where the Yinrawaddy River finally flows into the sea, and there are many waterways in its territory, especially in the southern region, there are a large number of alluvial plains, which are more suitable for mechanized troops.

When the eyebrows were burned, Kimura Hyotaro was anxious, he regretted why he took over the defense of the Burmese Front in the first place, so that it was difficult to ride a tiger now, and he lost all the losses, and he had no better way, and he wanted to seek tactical guidance from the base camp, but now that Prime Minister Tojo has stepped down, the situation on other battlefields is not much better than that of Burma, and it is estimated that there is nothing else to get from the telegram sent back except a scolding.

Kimura, who has no master of the six gods, has paid attention to Singapore again, and wants Terauchi Shouichi to send some military support over again, even if it is good to bring a few more brigades. But the latter was so happy when he saw that ridiculous telegram, *** is now looking for me for tactical guidance, and all the troops that can be sent have been spent, you and I are a jingle cat, how the do you have any extra support for you?