"Your Excellency, Division Commander, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, retreat quickly!" "Baga Ya Road! Give the order to go down and retreat immediately! Enter the cave to escape! A moment later, Kasawara Yukio, Tanaka Ryoyoshi and other devils were also choked by the smoke, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers on the hilltop position all began to cough violently, and they were all smoked to tears. Yukio Kasawara saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately yelled and ran backwards for his life, only hating his father and mother for missing two legs.

"Run!" "Hurry up and drop! Fall back! The devil soldiers also hugged their heads and ran forward desperately. At this time, even if there is no order to retreat, these devils will use their strength to flee frantically. They are not stupid, even if they have never eaten pork and have seen pigs run, how can they not know what it is like to be burned alive?

A cave in the Honlong Mountains, the headquarters of the 19th Army of the Japanese Army. "Your Excellency, Commander, something is wrong." Kawabe Shozo had just slept and had a simple meal of two rice balls, and was about to convene a temporary meeting of the staff staff when the chief of staff, Yoshiharu Ichikawa, suddenly walked in with a blue face. Without waiting for the riverside to ask, Ichikawa Yongji gritted his teeth and said: "The frenzied Chinese army actually set fire to the mountain!" ”

"Nani? Set fire to the mountain? How is this possible? Hebe Zhengsan was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't stop shaking his head and laughing: "Yizhichuan-kun, don't joke with me, the climate in Myanmar is so humid and hot, and just yesterday after the rainstorm, it was wet everywhere, how can this burn up,......, Hey, what kind of smell is this?" However, before he finished speaking, a burnt smell wafted in from outside the cave, and Kawabe Shozo's smile suddenly froze.

"Burnt smell like?" Sniffing hard, Hebian Zhengsan's face suddenly changed: "Baga, is the damn Huaxia army really setting fire to the mountain?" At the thought of this terrible word, the riverside was green on all three faces, and immediately turned around and ran out of the cave. Rushing out of the cave in three or two steps, Zhengsan by the river suddenly saw a terrifying scene like the end of the world, only to see the smoke of the forest billowing into the sky in the distance, and a thick cloud layer had formed in the sky.

In the thick smoke that obscured the sky and the sun, the flames of the sky appeared and disappeared from time to time, although they were far away, but the riverside Zhengsan could clearly feel the raging flames, and the fire was fierce and abnormal. "Baga Ya Road! How is this possible? Looking at the raging fire in the distance, the whole person was not good, and he kept chanting: "How can such a damp forest burn?" "Your Excellency Commander, if the Chinese army carries out arson at any cost, the tropical rainforest can also be ignited, it is nothing more than pouring a few more tons of gasoline.

And a few tons of gasoline is not a sought-after material for Jiang Qiang's Burmese army, there are oil fields and refineries in Myanmar! Yizhichuan Yongzhi gritted his teeth and said: "It's just that I didn't expect that the Chinese Expeditionary Force would commit such a heart-wrenching atrocity, and they completely disregarded the lives and safety of thousands of Burmese natives. "Yes, this inhumane thug has blatantly violated the Geneva Conventions!"

Kawabe Shozo was also trembling with anger, his five fingers clenched into fists and kept waving, gritting his teeth and saying hatefully, "This group of executioners who slaughtered the Burmese people, sooner or later, they will be judged justly!" At this moment, Kawabe Shozo seems to have become the messenger of justice, the guardian of human society, and he is tearfully accusing Jiang Qiang's army of atrocities! It's just that he didn't think that the massacres and atrocities committed by the Japanese devils in China are the real crimes against civilians, and they will be nailed to the pillar of shame in human history forever!

Ichikawa Yongji said with a dark face: "Your Excellency Commander, then what should we do now?" It won't take long for the fire to engulf the entire Benlong Mountains! Kawabe Shozo frowned and said, "Yizhichuan-kun, is there still a chance to clear out the partition and bring the partition fire?" "It's very unlikely, the fire is coming too hard!" Ichikawa shook his head helplessly and said, "Although the tropical rainforest is difficult to ignite, once it is set on a large scale, once the fire has formed a scale, it cannot be controlled.

If we had time, we could have given it a try, but the current fire is so fierce and fast that unless we can clear the circular barrier of more than 50 meters, all efforts will be in vain. But in such a short period of time, it is impossible to clear a circular isolation zone of more than 50 meters in such a dense primeval forest! ”

After a pause, Ichikawa Yongji sighed deeply and said: "The spread of the fire is unstoppable, fortunately, we took precautions before and found enough caves in the Benlong Mountain Range as hiding places, otherwise, this fire alone would be enough to wipe out our entire army." "Baga, damn Jiang Qiang can't die well!" Hebe Zhengsan scolded unwillingly, and then sighed deeply: "Although the cave can help us avoid this fire, but after the forest is burned down, the imperial army will have no cover from the tropical jungle, and the situation of the imperial army will become extremely difficult!"

In that case, the Imperial Army would no longer be able to fight guerrilla warfare as before. According to Chikawa-kun, I'm afraid we can only hold out for a month at most, and we can't wait for reinforcements to rescue us any longer. "Your Excellency, are we really hopeless?" Yichikawa Yongji's heart twitched suddenly, damn it, is it really desperate now? Are you really going to die here? "Alas!" Kawabe Shozo sighed deeply and said, "For now, the plan is to immediately send troops to collect all the materials that can be used from the Burmese natives and hide them all in the cave to maximize the resistance time!" ”

"Hello!" Yichikawa Yongji nodded in response, and then asked, "How to deal with that person?" Presumably, they would not be willing to give all their supplies to the Imperial Army. Hebian Zhengsan's eyes looked cold and said: "What's the difference between dying early and dying late?" They have no use value now, and they can't be allowed to consume the little food they already have! After a pause, Hebe Zhengsan's eyes added fiercely: "By the way, those women can also let them live for a few more days temporarily, let them make their final contribution to the imperial warriors, and this blood debt should also be recorded on the head of the Huaxia army!" ”

"Hello! I understand! Yichikawa Yongji nodded hurriedly, and then took a few devil officers to carry out the task viciously. Soon, a bloody and brutal massacre took place in the Burmese indigenous areas of the Ben Nong Mountains. These Burmese natives, who were friendly to Japan, finally reaped the consequences of their own evil and finally saw the murderous nature of the Japanese before they died, but it was too late.

Tak Province, Thailand, General Headquarters of the Burmese Dispatch Army. Okamura Ninji, Kimura Hyotaro, Adachi Twenty-three, Iida Shojiro, Seki Kameji, Yoshihara Ju and other high-ranking generals of the devil gathered together and held a high-level military meeting. Although Adachi Twenty-three, Iida Shojiro, and Seki Kameji have basically become bare-bones commanders now, the recall order of the Japanese base camp has not yet been issued, and the three of them still have the title of military commander on their heads.

Okamura has been the commander-in-chief of the Burmese Dispatch Army for half a month, and he has a very comprehensive understanding of everything that the Burmese Dispatch Army has experienced before and after, as well as the current situation. But the more he understood, the more frightened Okamura Ninji became, the more worried he became, and in the past half a month, he had insomnia almost every night, and often could barely fall asleep in the second half of the night. The long-term anxiety and irritability made the 57-year-old Okamura Ningji's mental state worse and worse, and even his hair turned a lot grayer, and he seemed to have aged more than ten years in just half a month.

Okamura Ninji took off his heavy myopic glasses, wiped them lightly with a cloth, and said to himself at the high-ranking officials: "I've been overly worried lately, my mental state is not very good, and even my hair has turned a lot grayer, do I look old now?" Ha ha! "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, please don't worry too much, and you must pay attention to your health! The Imperial Army needs a patron saint like you, and the Burmese Dispatch Army is indispensable for your wise leadership" Kimura Hyotaro's face was ugly, and he really felt a little distressed and ashamed, such a mess was really wronged for such an imperial magnate to clean up.

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, you must take care of yourself!" "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,...... "Adatsu Twenty-three, Iida Shojiro and others are also in the same mood, they are full of shame and distress for Okamura Ninji, but they can't share their worries and relieve their sorrows, they can only say some comforting words that are not nutritious." Ladies and gentlemen, it doesn't have to be like this, I'm just a little gray hair, don't worry about it! ”

Okamura Ninji shook his head slightly, and then said with a dejected expression: "It's a pity, even if I worry about it, I can't think of how to break the situation, and I really can't find any way to save the 19th Army, I'm really ashamed!" "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, please don't say that, we should be ashamed!" Kimura Hyotaro's face turned red, and he comforted bitterly: "Maybe things are not so bad, maybe there will be a turnaround, the 19th Army is an experienced Imperial Army, and they will not be easily beaten."

In the past half a month, the 19th Army has not only established a solid defensive line, but also taken the initiative to attack many times and won a lot of successes, and may really be able to gain a firm foothold in the Benlong Mountains like the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army! "Kimura-kun, is that really going to be like that? You and I are well aware of the current situation, although the 19th Army still has a certain amount of room for maneuver, but if it does not break through as soon as possible, it will not be able to support it with weapons and ammunition alone. ”

Okamura Ninji smiled miserably, shook his head and said: "The Imperial Air Force cannot be replenished in a short period of time, which means that the 19th Army cannot be effectively replenished in the short term. There is no need for us to have any illusions, and we should not expect the 19th Army to really work a miracle, we should now recognize the reality and immediately start to deploy and build a defense system to prevent the complete collapse of the war situation in Southeast Asia. ”

"Nani?" "Build a defense?" "That's giving up the offense?" "Doesn't that mean that there will soon be a bigger battle group that will soon be in Burma?"

Kimura Hyotaro, Iida Shojiro and other old devils were suddenly stunned, and they all stared at Okamura Ninji with wide eyes, with a blank and stunned face, and they really couldn't understand why Okamura Ninji was so pessimistic. Stunned, Kimura Hyotaro asked puzzledly: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, I remember that the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor did not mean to build a passive defense system, but to continue to take the initiative to attack until Burma was conquered and the industrial base in northern Myanmar was destroyed?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, we can't just give up!" "In that case, wouldn't the more than 300,000 Imperial Imperial Army be shattered in vain?" "That's right, the Huaxia Expeditionary Force is currently in the weakest state, as long as we make persistent efforts, we will definitely be able to turn things around, and it will be decided in one battle!" After such an unprecedented epic defeat, which of the devil generals such as Kimura Hyotaro and Iida Shojiro is not holding back their anger and humiliation, and which one does not want to be able to get back to the field as soon as possible?

They couldn't accept it anyway, and directly gave up the attack plan, so that the hundreds of thousands of imperial warriors who were collectively shattered in the final battle died worthless. Thinking of this, all the old devils suddenly turned ashen, and their hearts kept sinking. "Go on the offensive? Conquering Burma? Destroying the industrial base of northern Myanmar? Okamura Ninji grinned helplessly, squeezed out an ugly smile and said, "The decision of the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor is understandable, and the feelings of the monarchs are also understandable.

But what I want to ask you is, are you really confident that you can conquer Burma and destroy the industrial base in northern Myanmar? "This ......" Kimura Hyotaro was speechless for a moment, he had the confidence and certainty of a fart, it was nothing more than a resentment in his heart, unwilling to put such a shameful stroke on his life resume forever. Iida Shojiro, Anda Twenty-three and other old devils are also silent, how they don't know what kind of bad situation they are in now.

That's right, in the last battle, the Burmese Dispatch Army caused heavy casualties to the Chinese Expeditionary Force through a collective charge, and the entire Burma Battle greatly consumed all kinds of technical equipment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. However, the Chinese Expeditionary Force is backed by an industrial base with increasing production capacity and a huge population base, and can replenish weapons and equipment and soldiers nearby, unlike them, which need to travel thousands of miles to temporarily recruit troops and weapons and equipment.

In particular, the strong foundation and strength of Huaxing Trading Group Company can raise enough military supplies in a short period of time to meet the food, drink, and sleep of hundreds of thousands of Chinese expeditionary forces. On the other hand, the 17 veteran divisions of the four armies of the Burmese Command Army are already the most elite heavy army groups that the Japanese Empire can mobilize at present, and there is not a single one. However, it is such an elite heavy army group, but it has suffered a devastating blow on the battlefield in Burma, so far in addition to the more than 50,000 imperial troops who have difficulty escaping from the sky, there are only more than 40,000 people left in the entire Burmese dispatch army.

The most elite heavy army groups have been wiped to ashes, and if 20 or 30 other divisions come to attack Burma, will they be able to turn the tide and turn defeat into victory? "No, it can't be so magical!" After thinking about it, the old devils all shook their heads secretly. Although they don't want to admit it, the cruel truth will not change because of their subjective consciousness, that is, even if another 50 divisions are transferred to Burma, they are afraid that the same will be a complete defeat! Because the terrain of Myanmar is dominated by mountains and plateaus, either rolling mountains or dense jungle areas, there are not many areas where large-scale corps operations can be carried out.

Therefore, even if there are more troops, they will not be able to fully deploy, otherwise the 500,000 elites of the Burmese army will not be so poor, and will eventually be constantly weakened under a series of wars of attrition, but there is no way to use the superior forces to carry out a frontal crushing decisive battle. And everyone knows better that there will be lengths and weaknesses in ten fingers, not to mention the old troops and the newly formed troops? There will inevitably be a vastly different difference in strength, the most elite 500,000 people in front can't handle it, so can the 500,000 people transferred in the back be able to do it?

This is impossible! "Alas!" "There really is no hope for Myanmar!" "We've lost after all!" In the face of Okamura Ningji's soul torture, Kimura Hyotaro, Anda Twenty-three and other old devils were all silent, although their hearts were still full of unwillingness and grievances, but the obsession with revenge and eagerness to turn the tables was greatly reduced.

Without those miscellaneous obsessions, everyone's heads will gradually sober up. At this time, Iida Shojiro suddenly spoke: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, why can't we send troops to the south to ask for help to solve the urgent need?" "I'm afraid that the southern dispatch army is also weak, right?" Okamura Ninji shook his head lightly when he heard this, although there was no major war in the Southern Army, but sporadic resistance was still emerging, and there was no way to draw a large number of troops to come to Burma to save the field.

In addition, Okamura Ningji still has a little calculation and calculation in his heart, because the Japanese emperor and Tojo-kun sent him to Burma to preside over the overall situation at such a critical moment, which was to place high hopes on him, hoping that he would be able to turn the tide and change the situation in Burma. Otherwise, there would be no need to rush him from the post of commander of the North China Front to the Burma Dispatch Army as commander-in-chief.

It's just that the situation is stronger than people, the objective facts are cruel and cold, Okamura Ningji is just a mortal after all, not Yang Fan, who can seize all kinds of fighters with various tricky angles, magnify the negligible chance of victory countless times, and constantly create war miracles. Just when Okamura Ninji was preoccupied, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and soon a devil communication staff officer hurriedly walked into the conference room. "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Your Excellency the Chief of the General Staff! I just received a report from the 19th Army that the Chinese army set fire to the Benlong Mountains on a large scale! ”

The Devil's Communication Staff Officer walked up to Okamura Ninji, and after standing still, he paused and reported: "At present, monstrous fires have broken out in the north, west, and south directions of the Honlong Mountain Range, only the direction of the Salween River in the east has not yet caught fire, and the defense system carefully built by the 19th Army is being engulfed by the fire. "Nani?" "Fire attack? Did you really attack with fire? "Eight Ga Ya Road! Damn the Chinese army, it's so shameless! "Butchers, executioners, a bunch of murderers!" "Yaga! A group of despicable and sinister cowards are engaged in a head-to-head battle with the Imperial Army of the Great Nippon Empire! ”

Kimura Hyotaro, Anda Twenty-three, Iida Shojiro and others all changed their faces drastically, and the emotions that had just calmed down were instantly ignited again, and they were all so angry that they were about to explode. "It's over! Finished! The 19th Army is completely finished! Okamura closed his eyes in pain. For this result, in fact, he had expected it a long time ago, and it was not difficult to come to such a conclusion through intelligence analysis, but Okamura Ninji still had luck and illusions in his heart. In the depths of Okamura Ninji's heart, why don't you hope that the 19th Army can create a miracle and be able to hold out for a long time like the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army?

However, Jiang Qiang's Asian Liberation Army, the damned Chinese commander, was still as murderous and willful as ever, completely disregarding his personal reputation, and actually ordered the mountain to be set on fire, even a large number of Burmese indigenous people! After all, the 19th Army failed to escape the fate of annihilation, and after all, it could only be eaten bite by bite under its nose! "Damn the Chinese butcher, he will definitely be judged by history in the future!"

Kimura Hyotaro shouted with resentment, then sighed deeply, and said with a gloomy expression: "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief is right, we still have to recognize the reality after all, and if we want to give up those unrealistic illusions, we should indeed devote ourselves to deploying Thai defense." ”

Xu Guangming patted his chest and said murderously: "Please rest assured, these devils are dead and turn to ashes, if they still have a breath left, whether they are hiding in that cave or drilling into the cracks in the ground, I will pull them out and send them to see Lord Yama!" ”

Chang Yuan was also full of confidence, and said with a smile: "Commander Xu is right, now that the devils have no jungle cover, now I want to see what they can do to resist?" "It's good to have faith, but you still don't underestimate the little devil's will to resist!" Jiang Qiang knew very well that although the primeval jungle of the Benlong Mountains was burned, this did not mean that the encirclement and annihilation of the 19th Army of the Devils was over.

Because Jiang Qiang clearly remembers a series of bloody and brutal island offensive and defensive battles that took place in Taiping in another time and space, how the Japanese devils made the arrogant Americans suffer and suffer from war phobia. So much so that when attacking the Japanese mainland, in order to reduce the battle loss rate of American soldiers, the United States had to drop two atomic bombs that had just been successfully developed.

Indeed, as Jiang Qiang speculated, although the fires burned for six days and six nights before and after the Benlong Mountain Range, burned the jungle, burned to death many Japanese devils, and destroyed the devils' defense line, most of the devil soldiers survived with the ubiquitous karst caves and caves in the Benlong Mountain Range. And these surviving devils did not lose their faith and fighting spirit because of this, but became more ferocious, relying on the labyrinthine caves and caves that extend in all directions of the Benlong Mountain Range, and continue to resist stubbornly.

In the next few days, the encirclement and suppression of the 19th Army by the Special Forces and the garrison not only had little effect, but also paid a lot of casualties in a series of battles. However, after losing the cover of the jungle, the space for the 19th Army of the devils to operate has been greatly compressed, and even if there are intricate caves and caves to hide, it is just a grasshopper after the autumn, and it will not be able to jump for a few days.

As the saying goes, "as long as the mind does not slip, there are always more ways than difficulties", at the beginning, the People's Liberation Army in Myanmar suffered a lot of losses because they understood the specific situation, but as time went by, they quickly found various ways to solve it. Using a series of operations such as blasting and filling pits, pouring gasoline, and pouring poisonous smoke, the holes were slowly cleaned up one by one, and the devil soldiers hiding in those caves were destroyed and annihilated one by one. This kind of clean-up campaign lasted for more than two months, and nearly 40,000 devil soldiers were annihilated cumulatively, and the 19th devil army, which was reduced to pieces, was basically pacified.

The Burmese Jiang Qiang army paid the price of 547 killed, 2,450 seriously wounded, and more than 4,300 lightly wounded, which is still acceptable. In fact, strictly speaking, the 19th Devil has not been completely eradicated, after all, there are too many karst caves and stone caves in the Benlong Mountain Range, and the interior is too complicated, and there is no way to do it without leakage.

But it doesn't matter, at most, the remnants of a few two or three thousand people are still hiding in some dark corners, or the Japanese troops in the cave have found a new exit! But it doesn't hurt anymore. In the same way, there was no need for Jiang Qiang's army to continue to besiege with heavy troops, and it took a lot of twists and turns to continue to wear out, and after leaving some observation posts, the large army was withdrawn one after another to turn into a state of rest.