On 20 February, Lieutenant General Alexander ordered the 17th Division of the Anglo-Indian Army, which had been defeated at the hands of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army on 11 February, to retreat to the Degong garrison in the northwest of Bago Province to rest;

The 36th Indian Infantry Division, which had been defending the Burma-Thailand border, was withdrawn to Mongzhen on the border between Bago State and Kayin State;

The British 7th Armoured Brigade withdrew north to Bago to garrison, the British and Burmese 1st Division defended Rangoon, and the British and Australian 63rd Brigade moved north along the railway line while the headquarters began to prepare for withdrawal.

On February 23, the Japanese 55th Division seized the only bridge over the Siddang River, broke through the defense line of the Siddang River, and attacked in the direction of Rangoon with the coordination of the Navy and Air Force.

On 6 March, the Japanese 55th Division crushed the counterattack of the British 7th Panzer Brigade near Bago and headed straight for Rangoon.

Because of the fear of being cut off by the Japanese army to the north, when the Japanese army began to attack near Bago, the Anglo-Burmese Army General Headquarters set the sequence of the withdrawal of the entire British army, and the headquarters took the train first, followed by the 1st Division, and the 7th Armored Brigade behind.

Speaking of which, this is also the reason why the soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade had no fighting spirit and retreated in the first battle after contact with the Japanese army. Originally, with the armored strength of the 7th Armored Brigade, against the Japanese army without tanks, it should have been a battle without suspense, but they were blinded by themselves!

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Regarding the movements of the British army, Li Junhao watched coldly, and while sending a report to Washington, informing him that Rangoon would be lost due to the abandonment of the British army, he also made preparations for his own evacuation.

This time, the British-Burmese Army Command even prepared a carriage for him, which can be regarded as respect for him as an American envoy! However, he didn't plan to get on the train.

In his memory, Alexander, who was the last to be awarded the title of Marshal of the British Army in his previous life, was first promoted to lieutenant general because he successfully commanded the British 1st Army to retreat from Dunkirk, and then was promoted to general and became the commander-in-chief of the British Middle East Theater because he commanded the British army to withdraw to India in Burma;

Later, in the North African battlefield, relying on the outstanding performance of the 8th Army commanded by Montgomery, he defeated the German North African Army in the Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Tunisia, which was already on the decline, and was promoted to the rank of Lord of the Reich;

He then rose to prominence as Supreme Allied Commander of the Mediterranean Theater in December 1944, was promoted to Field Marshal, and surrendered to Germany on April 29, 1945.

Finally, he also served as Governor General of Canada and Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom until his death in 1969.

However, no matter how brilliant this Alexander was in his later career, when he was in Burma, he was indeed a runaway general, and he specialized in the Chinese expeditionary force. He wondered: Did he finish off this man with one shot?

He felt that no matter how incompetent the British soldiers were, they couldn't all be like Alexander, just thinking about escaping! It is that half of the British army can fight normally, and the situation in Burma will not be completely eroded.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Junhao sent someone to inform the General Headquarters of the British and Burmese Army, and left Yangon with his own people in the six armored vehicles.

When the adjutant told Lieutenant General Alexander the news, the head office laughed and said to the officers around him: When the American envoy first arrived, he looked like he was going to force the British army to fight, but now he himself ran away!

Ha ha...... The crowd burst out laughing.

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Early in the morning of March 7, Alexander gave the order for the entire army to retreat, giving full play to his experience in commanding the 1st Army of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940 to retreat from Dunkirk, and once again giving full play to the "advantage" of the British army's escape!

At 9 a.m., a special train with the highest luxury train in Myanmar stopped on the platform, and more than a dozen luxury cars drove into the station and began to board the train under the escort of hundreds of people.

When the convoy entered the train station, on the roof of a building 630 meters away, Li Junhao, who had sneaked back alone last night, raised the M1L semi-automatic sniper rifle that he had designed and modified, and looked through the scope at the door of the most luxurious carriage on the train, waiting for the British generals.

At 9:25, more than a dozen senior British officers who got out of the car began to board the car while talking, and there were three lieutenant generals among them! Li Junhao only knew Alexander among them, and the other two didn't know him, so he was a little hesitant whether to fight or not.

At 9:28, seeing that the three lieutenant generals were about to board the car, Li Junhao knew that he couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately held his breath and condensed, aimed at Alexander in the middle, and shot him in the head with a "bang"! Then the muzzle of the gun moved lightly, and the fire continued continuously, and in twenty seconds a magazine of eight rounds was emptied, and the guns were all aimed at the remaining two lieutenant generals.

When the first gunshot rang out, the British generals were not slow to react, and immediately climbed to the ground, and the surrounding guards also swarmed up and surrounded them, so that Li Junhao could not see the results of the battle clearly.

Then, finding that the British had noticed his sniper position, Li Junhao immediately put away his gun, and directly rappelled from the roof of the building to the street with a pre-prepared rope, and ran away.

At this time, he didn't know that in addition to the first shot that killed the fleeing general Alexander, the remaining 7 shots killed the front commander of the Anglo-Burmese army, Lieutenant General Smith, and seriously wounded the former commander of the Anglo-Burmese army, Lieutenant General Hutton, and there was also a major general and two brigadier generals who were wounded by him! If he hadn't made sure he had to take out the three lieutenant generals, none of the wounded would have survived.

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At about 11 o'clock, Li Junhao caught up with the armored convoy that was waiting for him slowly, and none of the 50 subordinates asked him what he was doing, these people were already hardcore of their own! Only Xiaoyu and Xiaohu were a little unhappy, because they knew that this Jun brother must have gone to do something risky, which made them very worried.

At this time, Li Junhao didn't know that the British army, who was in a hurry to escape, did not stop evacuating and hunt for the murderer because the two lieutenant generals were killed, but ran away one after another, and they were able to magically and strictly implement the retreat plan formulated by the previous headquarters without too much chaos!

If he knew this, he would definitely have to say: who said that the British army was of poor quality?

By noon, there was no sign of the British in Yangon, only the British-backed Burmese army was still running the city, but only very little.

Under such circumstances, there have been incidents of smashing and looting in many neighborhoods, and people are easily afraid to go out on the streets.

However, the Burmese were not very afraid of the Japanese army that was about to attack, because when the Japanese army with "ideas" attacked Southeast Asia, it first cooperated with Thailand and did not carry out any killing; After attacking Burma, the Japanese army even attracted the national armed forces of Burma under the banner of "expelling the British army and rescuing the Burmese".

(End of chapter)