The upper peak is incompetent.

When the expeditionary force retreated, it was faced with two decisions, one was to withdraw to the north and withdraw from India, and at that time Chiang gave the withdrawal of the country, according to the intelligence at that time, the Japanese army occupying Myitkyina was a small force, which meant that Du Yuming's retreat only needed to pass through Myitkyina to be able to withdraw to the country, but the intelligence at that time was wrong, and the Japanese army occupying Myitkyina was the notorious Japanese 56th Division.

The order to evacuate India was Stilwell, then chief of staff of the Allied Chinese theater of operations, and when Du Yuming found out that the Japanese troops occupying Myitkyina were not small Japanese forces, he hesitated and fell into a dilemma, forcing his way through Myitkyina, which was to bear two risks, one was political and the other was military. Political risk, Chiang's order was to evacuate Burma to avoid war, and if he forcibly broke through Myitkyina, it would be equivalent to disobeying Chiang's order, and even if he returned to China, he would be sent to a military court. The military risk was that the Japanese army did not know the strength of the Japanese army in Myitkyina, and it was good to break through, but the failure to break through was undoubtedly devastating to the expeditionary force at that time.

It was in this entanglement that Du Yuming ordered the whole army to evacuate from the primeval jungle Savage Mountain on the Myitkyina side and return home.

The fact is that at that time, the expeditionary force under Du Yuming still had 15,000 troops directly under the Fifth Army, more than 6,000 people from the new 22nd Division, more than 5,000 people from the 96th Division, and more than 7,000 people from the 38th Division of the 66th Army, and 7,000 people from Dai Anlan's 200th Division were also coming from Tangji.

The armament is equipped with weapons reinforced by the Allied forces, as well as heavy firepower equipment purchased from the Soviet Union, with tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, artillery of various calibers and other heavy firepower weapons and equipment.

These divisions were prepared for the Battle of Pingmanna, the main division for the Battle of Mandalay, with more than 50,000 people, and the mechanized main division, which can be said to be the strongest army division in China at that time, was accumulated little by little since the Anti-Japanese War, and how many people's efforts were concentrated.

At that time, the 56th Division of the Japanese army stationed in Myitkyina was only 7,000 people, and it was impossible to resist the 50,000 army under Du Yuming, but it was Du Yuming's paper order that the 50,000 army blew up all the tanks, armored vehicles, and cannons that could not be carried up the mountain, and then entered the Savage Mountain lightly. Masao Watanabe, the commander of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army in Myitkyina at that time, was incredulous when he heard the news, and he considered all the situations that the Japanese army could not cope with, and made various preparations, but he did not consider that the 50,000 troops of the expeditionary force were all evacuated from the Savage Mountain next to Myitkyina.

Savage Mountain, lofty mountains, uninhabited, no living person can come out of it.

Hukang River Valley, in Burmese is called the place where the devil lives, it is located in the northernmost part of Myanmar, the mountain trees cover the sky, the sun is not seen all the year round, there are groups of fierce beasts, leeches are everywhere, and there are man-eating savages infested, so the mountains around the Hukang River Valley are called Savage Mountain.

Just when the divisions were climbing the mountain, Sun Liren's new 38th Division was assembled on the road, and the cars, artillery trucks, and tanks on the road were full of infantry of the new 38th Division, like a group of unbridled galloping on the road, running against the large army, and did not obey Du Yuming's orders, Du Yuming was very annoyed and ordered Sun Liren to obey the order, Sun insisted on his opinion, and still withdrew to India with his troops, and finally arrived in Sibang, a border town in India.

Running through the entire expeditionary force, the smallest loss was the new 38th division mastered by Sun who had evacuated India, and the troops of 8,900 men before the war also fought a Ringanqiang to relieve the siege, and there were still 7,000 people when they arrived in India, basically the whole army retreated. In the end, Liao Xiangyao's new 22nd Division evacuated India on the way to the Savage Mountain, and only 3,000 of the 9,000-strong troops remained, most of which were swallowed up by the Savage Mountain.

According to the statistics of the expeditionary force after the war, when the Fifth Army entered Burma, there were 42,000 people and 21,100 deaths. The Sixth Army suffered 30,000 men and 17,600 dead, and the 66th Army suffered 31,000 men and 16,780 dead. A total of 100,030,000 expeditionary forces, with a total of 56,480 deaths, about 10,000 died at the hands of the Japanese army, and the rest of the people, except for those who escaped halfway, basically died in Savage Mountain. After the 200 female soldiers of the Fifth Army climbed the mountain, only five survived.

A single order, burying an army of 50,000.

This is the tragic and tragic expeditionary force, Xia Yuan can not consider the situation at that time from the perspective of his predecessors, he can only bury so many troops from the perspective of Shangfeng, Du Yuming himself is a bit feudal, too stubborn, he will only resolutely carry out orders and do not know how to be flexible, Shangfeng is even more ass to decide to act, never considered the combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force at that time, never considered the horror of Savage Mountain, naively thought that entering Savage Mountain without the slightest trace of Japanese troops, he could withdraw to the country, As everyone knows, Savage Mountain is a more terrifying place than the Japanese army.

In the end, several ace divisions that crossed the Savage Mountain were never able to participate in the follow-up battles, and they were basically crippled, their equipment was lost, and their people were gone.

And he can consider the entire battlefield from the perspective of the future, the Japanese army is not invincible, if the decision at that time can be decisive, if Du Yuming did not hesitate, the 50,000 army will be a sharp sword, straight into the heart of the 56th Division of the Japanese army, and there is absolutely no problem in killing a bloody road.

It was also the wrong decision that led to the rout of the expeditionary force, and 10,000 people fled to the country in a hurry, even if they sent troops to rescue, it was to no avail, all the heavy firepower equipment at that time was on these divisions, plus after the victory of the Japanese army, the ambition was full of ambition, and it advanced rampantly all the way until the expeditionary force withdrew from the Nu River.

Therefore, the expeditionary force was not unable to defeat the Japanese army, and the fundamental reason for the final rout of the expeditionary force was the incompetence of the British, who used the expeditionary force as a cover on their way out.

In contrast, in the Korean War, every decision was made very accurately, and the soldiers' strong execution and spirit of fearless sacrifice were also the key factors for victory.

Xia Yuan looked at the group of dejected defeated soldiers in front of him, fundamentally speaking, is this group of defeated soldiers really inferior to the volunteer army? Not necessarily, the volunteers have also come step by step, and the volunteers have also been defeated, but the volunteers can't be defeated or blown up.

The first step he had to do was to restore the confidence of the defeated soldiers.

"What about withdrawing Chanda, you are still a group of defeated soldiers, and the ultimate fate of the unstructured is to be sent to the battlefield to serve as cannon fodder for the so-called elite troops, are you really willing to be cannon fodder? Are you willing to block bullets for others? Don't you want to be the heroes of the people's battles? ”

Xia Yuan shouted sharply: "No one is born a waste, others look down on you, you let them look down on you." Since the September 18 incident, how many people have shed blood and sacrificed so that we Chinese can stand up, the Battle of Songhu, millions of warriors rushed to Shanghai, knowing that it was death, they resolutely rushed to the battlefield, countless casualties, what are they for, they are the backbone of the Chinese! ”

"They straightened the backbone of the Chinese with their lives, but you who are alive now have bent the backbone again, how will the strong men who shed blood and sacrificed for you and for China feel when they see you like this now."

"Hold me up, like a soldier!"

The blood of the defeated soldiers was mobilized by Xia Yuan's words, although they didn't make any moves, they silently straightened their waists, and even Milong unconsciously straightened their waists, for the sake of the people who no longer existed.

"The weapons are all picked up, on the back, our retreat is not to return to Chanda, the Japanese army is approaching the border, you will also be included as cannon fodder when you return to Chanda, and when it comes to the counterattack, you are a group of cannon fodder, since being cannon fodder is death, staying here will also die, why let yourself die in a nest."

"They look down on us, because 100,000 of us entered Dian-Burma, and were beaten by the Japanese army like a group of chickens in the soup, 100,000 people, only 40,000 people came back alive, and the others stayed in Dian-Burma.

Xia Yuan looked at the dragon article and said: "The deputy regiment does not do anything, demotes the camp, the dragon disturbs the morale of the army, it should be shot, for the sake of its meritorious service in killing the enemy, bypassing this time, and making up for it in the future, now give you ten minutes, sort out the equipment, straighten your waist, although these colleagues are lying on the ground, they are all looking at us, we ourselves look down on ourselves, it is better to dig a pit and bury ourselves, save you to go out and lose the face of the Chinese, lose the face of our ancestors." ”

The rout soldiers moved, they rearranged their weapons and equipment, Meng was annoyed and silently picked up his gun, put it behind his back, Mi Long also took off the watch on his wrist, and took back his own machine gun from the bean cake and sheep eggs, no one spoke, as if they respected the deceased, or maybe this was not a place to talk in itself.

Long Wen looked up at the sky and muttered, "Come back, come back, only when you come back will you be determined to continue fighting the Japanese devils." ”

Although the souls of the defeated soldiers did not come back, their blood was mobilized by these words, as Xia Yuan said, if they themselves looked down on themselves, even if they returned to Chanda, they would also play the role of cannon fodder.

"Danza, where are we going next?" Meng asked Xia Yuan in annoyance.

"Into the mountains, the Japanese devils are chasing the large forces of our army, they are along the road, and we can go into the mountains and establish our own base in the mountains, in addition, the supplies of the Japanese army are also very sufficient, and their battle line is very long, we can completely collect the captured materials by blocking the logistics of the Japanese army and use them on our own people."

Xia Yuan found Meng Fu and told him, "If you encounter the defeated soldiers on the road in the future, you will use your mouth to pull them in, and the defeated soldiers will also play the role of cannon fodder after they go back, instead of letting them follow the elite as cannon fodder, it is better to let them follow us to fight devils, and would rather be heroes than cannon fodder that no one remembers." ”

Meng annoyed nodded, he knew the fate of cannon fodder, used his life to block bullets for the elite troops, and after taking over the victory, there was no name of cannon fodder, they were all snatched away by those so-called elites, they bled and died, and the result was not yet reaping the benefits, Meng annoyed and figured it out, Xia Yuan was right, and after he went back, he was also cannon fodder, and he died in a daze, it is better to follow Xia Yuan, and someone will remember him if he dies.

Xia Yuan gathered everyone together, and asked Ah Yi to stand up, stuffed the pen that Mi Long threw away to Ah Yi, and said: "From today on, you record everyone's name and home address, write it on a strip of cloth, and distribute it to everyone, you will sew the strip of cloth on your shoulder, and if you sacrifice in the future, your name will remain, and this strip is called the Glory Strip." Ah Yi, in the future battles, you are responsible for recording the performance of every soldier on the battlefield, their combat deeds should not be buried, their combat deeds should be recorded, passed on to the future, passed on to our children and grandchildren, so that they can understand that we have fought hard and shed blood for them. The book is called the book of heroic deeds. ”

Ah Yi was stunned for a moment.

The defeated soldiers were also stunned, they never thought that Xia Yuanhui attached so much importance to this matter, in the previous battles, no one would care about what they had done on the battlefield.

After Ah Yi took the pen, Mi Long found some notebooks from some corpses, stuffed them to Ah Yi, and followed the rout soldiers to rush up.

"Li Sifu, my home is Sichuan Di, Chief Ayi, you know the drop, write it down for me first."

"Kanghuo chain, Shanxi Datong."

"Gu wheat, Baoding, Hebei."

"Ma Dazhi, Dongguang people"

"Li Liansheng, a native of Northeast China"

"Deng Bao, a native of Hunan."

"Meng is annoyed, from Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

"Sun Mazi, a native of Henan."

The rout soldiers swarmed up and surrounded Ah Yi, they spoke with accents from different places across the country, calling out their names, their hometowns, they desperately hoped that Ah Yi could remember their names, too many people died and didn't even know their names, for them, the names represented themselves.

Ah Yi shouted, "Come one by one." ”

"Quiet, there's one more thing to announce!"

Xia Yuan shouted, quieting down the originally noisy routs, quietly watching them sit down, only to hear him say: "Those who died in the battle should not be forgotten, after everyone registers, record the names of the comrades-in-arms you know, how they died, we should remember them even more." ”

Bright stars flashed in the eyes of the defeated soldiers, and they looked at Xia Yuan, raising their arms and shouting.

Glorious strips, heroic deeds book.

Xia Yuan's decision closed the hearts of all the defeated soldiers, they were not afraid of death, what they were afraid of was that they died, but no one remembered them, what they were afraid of was that they were a group of people who did not exist.

(End of chapter)