The battle at night was even more difficult, and the dark light was a great challenge for both the attacker and the defender.

You don't know where the enemy will appear, where the bullets will come from, and many times the barrel of the gun will be red and you won't necessarily kill several enemies.

The Japanese army generally took advantage of the night to engage in a wave of Banzai charges, relying on the crowd offensive and momentum suppression to overcome the opponent's psychological defense line.

This is indeed simple and effective, but the cost is huge, and using human lives to fill the gap in equipment and situation can only play a short-term advantage, and it is only a last resort.

And this expeditionary force will not give the other side another chance. With the advantage of equipment, countless flares are like light bulbs hanging in the night sky, which do not stop for a moment.

The fighters no longer only did passive defense at night, as usual, but took turns to take the initiative to attack, compressing the living space of the Japanese army and not giving it any respite.

The battle lasted from morning to midnight, and until dawn the next day, there were still bursts of gunfire on the battlefield.

There were countless corpses that fell to the ground, and the Japanese troops kept retreating in the encirclement, not because they didn't want to stand out, but it was difficult to carry out a large-scale counterattack, and the command system was already in chaos, and they could only be divided and eliminated in the situation of fighting separately.

After a day and a night of hard fighting, everyone is tired, this is not only a contest of tactical equipment, but also a contest of willpower, depending on which side can not hold on first, all the efforts in front will be wasted.

However, as soon as the day dawned, a new round of offensive of the expeditionary force began again, and the troops that had withdrawn to rest last night were again slaughtered on the battlefield, and the few remaining Japanese troops could no longer hold back.

Not long after, a 90-strong Japanese unit on the Chengnan side of Rangoon raised a white flag and surrendered to the expeditionary force.

The soldiers rushed to the position and saw rows of little Japanese kneeling on the ground and raising their hands high, this group of devils was in a very bad condition, they had run out of ammunition, and almost all of them were wounded.

Their abandonment also marks the end of this offensive and defensive battle.

As long as there is a leader, the rest of them will start to follow suit. It didn't take long for the surrender contingent to become more and more formed on most of the Japanese positions.

These devils who are willing to raise the white flag are basically the commanders who have died in battle, they are seriously injured and have run out of ammunition and food, and they are forced to have no way out and do not dare to die for their country.

And those diehards who fought to the death either fell under the rain of bullets or committed suicide, and the remaining grassroots officers and ordinary soldiers dared to take their lives when they saw that the general trend was gone.

At the same time, in the forward headquarters of the expeditionary force, Liao Mingyu's heart that had been hanging all night finally fell.

The little devils were no longer able to organize an effective counterattack, and the surrender of the Japanese army in the city all the way to the southwest region, the suicide of suicide, basically had wings and could not escape.

There is still some resistance in the large buffer zone to the northeast. And just now, the Japanese over there realized that something was wrong and began to break out.

The 510th Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Battalion of the 50th Division, which were responsible for blocking the broken back, were also engaged in the battle, and the division commander Gao Xijiang personally commanded that it was bound to annihilate the enemy here.

If these remnants of the defeated soldiers are let go, let alone Liao Mingyu's punishment of his crimes, he himself will have no face.

…

"Send a report to the third main regiment, why are you still advancing in depth? Their task is not to pursue. ”

"Report to the chief of staff, Regiment Commander Zhang is not at the command post, and I heard the staff officer of the third regiment reply that he led the team to the front line, and the vanguard troops have reached many hurdles."

Dokan is a coastal town southeast of Yangon, located deep behind enemy lines, originally prepared to be handed over to the 200th Division to attack, but I didn't expect the dragon to rush so fast, and it was almost to the sea.

"His uncle's! Let the artillery pay close attention to the direction of the attack of the three regiments and be ready for fire support at any time. ”

Meng was so annoyed that he scolded angrily, none of these grandsons are worry-free, do they still look like commanders.

Long Wenwen is like this, he ran to the front line early, and the commanders of the three main regiments under his command are also like this, as if they were beaten with chicken blood, they all rushed to the front line with all their strength.

The strong combat effectiveness of the Honorary Third Division is of course blessed by equipment and firepower, but it also benefits more from the desperate character of all officers and soldiers from top to bottom.

Although it is not really said that the regiment commander and division commander should follow the soldiers to charge forward, but the soldiers know that the commander is not far behind them, how can they say that they have no clothes? The spirit of being with the sons inspires them to fight bravely against the enemy all the time.

However, this also made the operational staff officers of the command headquarters suffer, and Meng Anyi, who was the chief of staff of the division headquarters, and the staff officers were so busy that they were about to fly.

All kinds of battle reports are piling up, and at the same time, it is necessary to adjust the various units according to the battle situation on the front line and formulate follow-up battle plans.

Glancing at the back that had been silent for a long time next to him, Meng annoyed and shook his head and smiled bitterly, not knowing what Jun Zuo was thinking about at this time.

Liao Mingyu stared at the combat map on the wall,

I just stood there quietly for an hour.

The situation on the battlefield in Yangon has been decided, and the system has happily given three opportunities to extract equipment in advance.

However, this time his luck was not good, for the first time he drew a Soviet 128mm cannon, which is not very useful for the expeditionary force that is now almost fully equipped with American equipment, and it is not suitable for jungle and mountain combat.

The second was the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle, which was a good gun, but it was obviously unlikely that it would replace the Garand M1 that was installed in the entire army.

And the third time was actually Soviet equipment, the BA-64 armored car, although it is also a good infantry fighting vehicle, but it is still unsatisfactory compared with the American "Greyhound".

Three times in a row, I have drawn something dispensable, and it is a pity to discard it purely because it is tasteless.

"Junza, this is the latest telegram... The 201st Division of the New Army has marched to Bago, and the 202nd Division has also arrived at Liang Libin, which is less than 200 kilometers away from us, and it is expected that it will arrive in Yangon the day after tomorrow. ”

The sudden voice of the report interrupted Liao Mingyu's contemplation, he looked at the map and thought for a while, and suddenly asked Meng Annoyed:

"I'm annoying, I asked Fang Jingyao to come to Yangon to replace you and continue to go south, do you think it's necessary?"

"I think it's still very necessary, our main divisions have been gnawing on the hard bone of Rangoon for two months, we have to hurry up and rest and recuperate, there is a new force to come and take over, I want to die, they can't ask for it."

Meng was annoyed and thought about it seriously, and then asked, "But Junzuo, where are we going to fight?" There are no more devils in the south, huh? Going south to fight Tanintharyi? ”

The south of Yangon is bordered by the sea, and it is the southernmost part of Myanmar... In addition to this, this is the province of Kayin State and Tanintharyi in the southeast, which borders Siam, and the Kra Isthmus, which links Malaysia.

But it was rugged and mountainous, full of dense rainforest, not a strategic location, and the Japanese had little interest, so they hardly deployed troops there.

(End of chapter)