Compared to the New England battalion, the Gurkha Brigade attacked more aggressively, their basic armament was M1 carbines, M1911A1 pistols and scimitars, MK-IIA heavy anti-armor grenades, a heavy fire squad per platoon, an M1 flamethrower and two M1919A6 general-purpose machine guns, and an M20 75mm recoilless gun......

When the Gurkha mercenaries act in platoons, shuttling through the streets and alleys of the city as in the mountains and jungles, every three people form an offensive triangle, each squad of nine people forms a middle triangle, and each platoon of three infantry squads forms a large triangle, with the long-range support of the heavy fire squad, the attack all the way is simply a devastating advance!

The generals in the headquarters outside the city were all stunned when they heard the observer report from the walkie-talkie! They knew that these two troops had been personally trained by General Pan Sen, but this kind of power was completely beyond their imagination!

Now, Li Junhao's image is even more unfathomable in the minds of the generals!

For Li Junhao, he did not want to show how strong the troops he had trained, but because this kind of internal city clean-up battle was really suitable for these two troops, and at the same time, it could also greatly reduce the casualties of ordinary troops in street fighting, so he made such an arrangement.

Faced with the longing eyes of the generals, he explained: The New England Battalion and the Gurkha Brigade are both lightly armed troops, which are suitable for this kind of urban combat, but their effect in field battles is far inferior to that of the main forces.

He pointed out that if the possibility of street fighting is taken into account, each division can appropriately add some special training or train a small professional unit, and there is no need for all units to learn this level.

After listening to this, the generals thought about it and found that this was indeed the truth.

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Of all the modes of warfare, street fighting was probably one of the most difficult to fight, and it still took nearly three days for the New England battalion and the Gurkha brigade to clean up Rangoon and wipe out all the 12,000 men of the 12,000-strong Japanese 49th Division and the 4,000 troops directly under the Burmese Front!

During this period, more than a dozen ships of the Japanese Navy tried to approach Yangon Harbor twice, but they were driven away by fighters of the 10th Air Force, and two destroyers were blown up and sunk, forcing them to abandon the rescue of the invading Japanese army.

By the 24th, the entire territory of Burma had basically been recovered, and the three divisions of the Fifth Army and the new 38th Division suffered heavy casualties in continuous battles, and they were stationed in major cities in southern and central Burma for rest.

Li Junhao sent out the ten Chinese mechanized infantry brigades of the 101st Group Army, organized them into two battle groups, the 105th and 106th, and let the two major generals Lores and Montero lead them into Thailand and Laos respectively to help the Sixth Army and the 66th Army carry out the clean-up operation, which can be regarded as actual combat training!

In this process, according to Li Junhao's arrangement, the operational purpose of the two armies and the two battle groups was to focus on striking at the puppet army forces supported by the Japanese army, and there was no need to be polite to those Thai traitors and old traitors!

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The feat of the Allied Indo-Burma Theater to recover the entire territory of Burma in one fell swoop shocked the world, especially in the battle reports obtained by all parties: In the Battle of Southern Burma, the Allied forces composed of the Chinese Expeditionary Force as the main force annihilated the Japanese troops including the 18th, 31st, 33rd, 49th, 53rd, and 54th Divisions, the 72nd Mixed Brigade and the 3rd Air Corps, with a total of 140,000 Japanese troops, which was the largest one-time loss in Japan's modern foreign wars!

Needless to say, the anger in Japan was not to mention, but the United States and China were jubilant, and the British were comforting themselves: Isn't there still two brigades of British troops involved in this battle, which shows that we have also helped! ——

On the 25th, Li Junhao received several telegrams from Washington, the first of which was Ayers' notification: "Og, this battle is well fought!" The President has issued an order awarding you the Congressional Medal of Honor! ”

General Marshall, Chief of the General Staff of the US Army and Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Far East, sent a telegram: "General Panson, this battle has been fought beautifully, and I hope to make persistent efforts to eliminate Southeast Asia!" First, it should be supplied with military needs, and priority should be given to satisfying it. ”

Chairman Chiang, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Theater of Operations, telegraphed: "General Pan Sen, thank you for your efforts to ensure the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and the Chinese military and civilians thank you!" ”

Mr. Yujie, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Theater of Operations, telegraphed: "General Pan Sen, friend of the Chinese people, your victory in Burma has allowed the Chinese military and people to see the dawn of victory!" ”

The Viceroyalty of British India and the General Headquarters of the British and Indian Forces sent a telegram: "Honorable General Panson, congratulations on the great success of the Burma campaign under your command, and Lord of the Empire, Admiral Wavell, looks forward to meeting with you to discuss the administration of Burma, the return of the 7th Armoured Brigade of the British Army and the 63rd Brigade of the Anglo-Australian Army, and looks forward to answering." ”

The British telegram made Li Junhao laugh angrily, he had to run at that time, and then he recovered Burma, so he immediately stood up to pick peaches, how could there be such a good thing?

What really made sense in these telegrams was Marshall's, "Purging Southeast Asia", was this a new mission?

It can be seen from the current map that Laos, which he arranged for the 66th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to pass through, and Vietnam to the east and Cambodia to the south are all the territory of the former French China, and they have all been occupied by Japan, while Thailand, which is adjacent to Burma, is a Japanese protectorate, and it is directly connected to the Malay Peninsula from Thailand to the south.

Under the current situation, he recovered Burma and ensured the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, if the Japanese could still bear this, he confirmed that when he passed through the whole of Southeast Asia, the Japanese army would definitely go crazy!

He needs to think hard about it......

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On November 30, Li Junhao received a telegram from Washington: Ayers summoned him to return to China on behalf of President Roosevelt to report on his work!

On December 1, his expeditionary plane flew from Kunming to Tonggu with two wingmen of escorts, where he and his entourage flew back to the United States......

On the 3rd, he arrived in Washington, D.C., and was warmly welcomed when he landed at Andrews Air Force Base, and the White House, the State Department, the War Department, the Navy Department, the CIA, the FBI, and other departments all sent special personnel to greet him at the runway.

After greeting representatives from various departments, he took his attachés into the city in a CIA motorcade, and he and Xiaoyu went home, while the attachés had to report to the King's Building before they could move freely — this was not discrimination, but the normal CIA security measures.

The next day he spent the whole day at home, but instead of resting, he read a large number of reports from various departments and read thousands of pages of documents......

I received a notice on the morning of the 5th to attend a joint meeting of the White House advisers and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the afternoon!

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