On July 5, just in the rainy season, the Allied Indo-Burma theater suddenly launched a large-scale offensive!

The fighters of the 10th and 14th Air Groups of the US Army covered the bomber groups to raid various Japanese airfields in Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and the Malay Peninsula, and it took only six hours to completely cripple the 19th Air Force and the 21st Independent Flying Group of the Japanese Burma Front, firmly grasping the air supremacy on the battlefield.

Subsequently, the huge group of aircraft began to attack the Japanese army in southern Thailand, the 105th Division of the 101st Army rushed to Bangkok from Nakhon Sawan, the 212th and 213th Divisions of the 121st Army started from the Dawei Station of the southern Burma railway branch line, crossed the Burma-Thailand border in the east, stormed Nandopanun, and threatened Panpong, and the 214th Division was the reserve, and then followed.

The 101st Division of the 106th Group Army annihilated the Japanese puppet army in only one day, occupied the important town of Vientiane in Laos, and then moved south to Thailand and advanced in the direction of Bangkok; The 107th Division went straight down the railway line to southern Burma and swept away the remnants of the Japanese puppet army.

The 103rd Group Army (New First Army) was responsible for guarding Burma, and all the officers and soldiers under the army commander Sun Liren were all black-faced, and they were angry that they couldn't fight this battle! But they knew it was all because of domestic orders — their first task was to defend the Burma Highway, and there was a potential meaning: to preserve their strength.

Li Junhao left the 104th Gurkha Division as a reserve, and the 82nd Airborne Division was preparing for battle!

The rainy season operation is a severe test for any army, but the Indo-Burma Theater is very well prepared this time, preparing a large number of LVT-4 tracked amphibious combat vehicles and DUKW-353 wheeled amphibious transport vehicles, with special engineering vehicles, and planning for opening roads, building bridges, and transporting them is very thorough, but it turns the difficulties of the rainy season into advantages over the Japanese army, and the heavy water and mud have all become problems for the other side!

In the first 24 hours of the campaign, the 106th Division occupied Vientiane and wiped out the last formed Japanese garrison brigade in Vientiane in Laos;

In the second 24 hours, the 105th Division marching south attacked Chai Na and severely attacked the Japanese 110th Division......

The 121st Army captured Nandopanon, the 212th Division was left to clear the remnants of the Japanese 431st Mixed Brigade, the 213th Division rested for a while, and the 214th Division, which had been in reserve, overtook them and attacked Bantent - the defenders here were the 21st and 27th Divisions of the Japanese Army, enough for them to fight for a while!

On the third day, the 106th Division of the 106th Division, which was heading south from Vientiane along the Thai-Central Line Railway, reached Nakhon Ratchasima, and basically wiped out the 433rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was a complete force, along the way. However, it is the 20th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Nakhon Ratchasima, and it will be a fight for a while!

In the front-line headquarters in Tonggu, Li Junhao, Deputy Commander Li Qiwei, Chief of Staff Wheeler, and Deputy Chief of Staff Yang Shixiong studied the battlefield situation.

Yang Shixiong said: "There is still a little bit of ...... in the use of troops."

Li Qiwei said: "Pan Sen, why don't you let the 82nd Division go up?" ”

"What, you want to use your airborne troops as infantry?" Li Junhao joked, "It's not that time yet......"

At this moment, a "report" sounded, and Sun Liren, who was supposed to return to Lashio, appeared at the door.

Sun Liren, who entered the conference room, didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Commander Pan Sen, I ask for battle on behalf of the 103rd Group Army!" ”

Everyone looked at him, did not speak, and knew the joints in it.

Li Junhao said with some embarrassment: "General Sun, you should know what Chairman Jiang meant, if I agree to your participation in the war, of course it will be beneficial to the entire battle situation, but for you, it is not necessarily a good thing!" ”

"Commander, I have already discussed with Division Commander Yu and Division Commander Chen before I came......," Sun Lidao said, "We participated in the first two Burma battles, but this third battle was only watched from the side, this is not the style of soldiers, so we all make a joint request: join the war!" ”

Seeing his eyes, Li Junhao knew that he had really made up his mind, so he nodded and said, "Since that's the case, I'll arrange a task for you!" ”

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On July 9, the new 38th Division of the 103rd Group Army, led by Lieutenant General Sun Liren, took a train from Mandalay all the way south, and it took two days to reach Dawei in southern Myanmar, and then the whole team went east into Thailand, and arrived at Banpong on the 12th to join the siege!

At this time, the 21st and 27th Divisions in Pantent City were already unable to withstand it, and Yamashita Fumi urgently sent the 29th Division and the 418th Mixed Brigade from Bangkok to reinforce them, and the two sides fell into a fierce battle.

The 96th Division and the 55th Provisional Division each left a regiment in Lashio, and the main force marched eastward into Laos, clearing out the remaining Japanese garrisons and puppet troops on the one hand, and threatening the Japanese garrison in Vietnam on the other hand to ensure the safety of the right flank of the battlefield.

On the afternoon of the 13th, the 106th Division defeated the Japanese 20th Division at Nakhon Ratchasima, chased the rout, and approached Ayutthaya!

The 105th Division, which attacked Chai Na, opened the way with heavy artillery and tanks, and had already captured most of the city, and was gathering and destroying the last part of the enemy south of the city, and the Japanese 110th Division had been basically scrapped and could not hold out for long.

The 107th Division, which had moved south to the depths of southern Burma, had reached Ban Kien at this time, and was about to attack the Malay Peninsula if it moved forward, and was currently clearing the last remnants of the enemy, sorting out the railways and roads, and preparing the army to go south.

The battle has been fought so far, and everyone can see that the Japanese Burma Front is about to finish, and now there are still two divisions of the 5th and 30th and a 431st mixed brigade left in the city of Bangkok, and what awaits them is the siege of six divisions, and the victory of the allies is already completely predictable!

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On the 15th, the Allied forces completely cleared the surrounding enemy, and the 105th and 106th Divisions of the 101st Army, the new 38th Division of the 103rd Army, and the 212th, 213th, and 214th Divisions of the 121st Army surrounded Bangkok!

In the city of Bangkok at present, there are still relatively complete 5th Division, 30th Division and 431st Mixed Brigade around Yamashita Bongwen, in addition to the remnants of the 21st, 27th, and 29th Divisions and the remnants of the 19th Air Army that have retreated from defeat, with 57,000 combatable troops and 12,000 logistics troops, while the siege troops are more than 100,000, not counting the air power that will fly from Rangoon at any time.

The Thai royal family, who were originally in the city, had evacuated to Geling in the southern bay at this time, and they could not do anything except tremble, and they could no longer command and mobilize the remaining puppet army troops - they were scared to death!

On the 16th, Li Junhao personally led the 104th Gurkha Light Infantry Division to the outside of Bangkok, and then assigned three brigades, 108, 109, and 110 to fight urban street battles with the new 38th, 106th, and 212th divisions, and the 107th, 213th, and 214th divisions were responsible for peripheral support.

Despite the experience and weaponry that provided it, the brutal street fighting lasted for five days, and the Allies wiped out all the Japanese troops in the city at the cost of nearly 8,000 casualties...... Well, there are no captives!

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