Chapter 7 Expedition to Burma Section 2 First Battle (1)
"You haven't seen it, the Han army... The weak crowned enemy asked for a long tassel: "※
Haven't you seen Ban Dingyuan, Juewu Light Cavalry urged to fight against Yun!
A man should be in danger, so how can he let the Confucian Guan lose his life?
Moreover, the country is in danger and the eggs are buried, and the feathers are fighting forever!
Abandon my pen and put on my wartime collar,
He called out more than 100,000 comrades and sang war songs to join the army.
Qi joined the army and purified Hu dust, swearing to sweep the slaves to death without regard for their own lives!
On the Yunnan-Burma Highway, military flags were flying, military vehicles were turning around, and the passionate and majestic singing was floating in the mountains. The people in western Yunnan had never seen such a powerful squadron. The motors roared, and the tanks pressed deep marks on the road. At a glance, Kame was dragging heavy artillery toward Myanmar. The cars were filled with young Chinese soldiers. On both sides of the road were infantry walking in a single column. They were all wearing yellow-green military uniforms and strides southward.
This time, Chiang Kai-shek was also considered a big investment. The third tank brigade of the reorganized in Kunming was equipped with a total of 120 tanks produced by the Kunming Tank Factory. This brigade also brought in 160 newly produced armored vehicles and formed the Expeditionary Force's Division with the Third Tank Brigade. A brigade commander named Lin Zhuo was transferred from the Fifth Army to serve as the division commander. In the sky, the 270 aircraft of the US Air Aid China Volunteer Team were responsible for air cover.
It is no wonder that the people in western Yunnan are excited. Such a prosperous military appearance has never been seen in the history of western Yunnan. For many years, only foreigners have shown their power in China's land. Even if the Chinese are in their own country, they can only be bullied. Now with such a mighty army, they can finally be proud.
The old men of all ethnic groups set up incense tables at the intersection to set up an altar, and the wizards were the sacrificial sacrifices, killing pigs and sheep, and praying for the soldiers of the Expeditionary Army. As soon as the troops stopped, the people on both sides of the road rushed up, including rice wine, bananas, and tea eggs. They were sent to the soldiers of the Expeditionary Army.
"You don't see, the Han army is over, and the weak crowns are in the army, and the weak crowns are asking for a long tassel; you don't see, the clan is in the long distance, and the light cavalry in the terrible realm is urging to fight against the clouds! Men should be in danger, so how can the Confucians know this life?" Zhuang Jihua sang in a low voice on a hill at the south bridge of Jiugu Bridge. I don't know who wrote this song, and it started singing in Chongqing and quickly spread throughout the war zones across the country.
Zhuang Jihua didn't know if this song appeared because of his appearance? Or was it there. He was attracted when he heard this song for the first time in western Yunnan. After leaving the Kyugu Bridge, he stepped onto the land of Myanmar. In February, the spring scenery of Myanmar is romantic, with swaying poppies everywhere on the hillside. The Scholar girl wearing a tumble skirt walking gracefully on the mountain road with a bucket. It became a beautiful scenery.
There are two worlds at both ends of Jiugu Bridge. The north end of the bridge is loud and gongs and drums, and people of all ethnic groups sing and dance to bid farewell to the expeditionary army, but there are only dozens of people in the south of the bridge, holding small flags to welcome the expeditionary army.
"General Zhuang, we should speed up, otherwise it may be too late." A US lieutenant colonel reminded behind Zhuang Jihua that he was very unaware that Yangon was already in danger, but the commander of the 200,000 army was still standing here to watch the scenery slowly.
Shortly after the decision of Huangshan official residence, the Japanese army stayed on the Thai-Myanmar border began to take action. The Japanese army divided into six routes and entered the Thai-Myanmar border for hundreds of miles. The Japanese army was a primeval forest, with only a few available in the dry season. The forest was full of swamp traps, but the Japanese army only carried light weapons. Under the guidance of the Myanmar Volunteer Army, they crossed the entire Ionta Mountain Range at the cost of 2000 lives, and suddenly appeared behind the British defense line, launched an attack from the side and rear, seized Tuwa and increased its strength, surrounding the 20,000 British troops stationed in Maotanjin. The British army had to stage a Far East Dunkirk, retreated from the sea to Yangon, and threw a large number of supplies to the Japanese army.
When Mao Danjin was lost, Yangon was in chaos. The British people boarded the ship to escape from this dangerous place. Weiville took the initiative to ask Chiang Kai-shek for help, asking Chiang Kai-shek to quickly send a large army into Myanmar to assist the British army in defending Yangon. His chief of staff and commander of the British army, Hu Dun, sent people to Longling three times in a row within ten days. Finally, he also went to Longling in person and asked Zhuang Jihua to send troops immediately.
The British's performance made the Americans who knew their attitude towards China's sending troops before shook their heads. Magrud felt even more despised. But China's attitude also made him worry. Zhuang Jihua was abnormal. On the one hand, he refused to send troops on the grounds that the 103rd Army had not arrived. On the other hand, he airlifted 3,000 car soldiers to Yangon, and drove all the 1,000 American-aided Dodge trucks and supplies staying at the Yangon port back to China. He also used the British's urgent mood to blackmail 500 trucks from them, all of which were used to carry supplies from Yangon port.
The war situation in Southeast Asia deteriorated rapidly. On the Malaysian Peninsula, the British army lost their armor and was defeated. The remaining British troops destroyed the Johor Strait embankment and trapped the lonely city in Singapore. The Japanese army was preparing to cross the strait day and night on the north coast of the Johor Strait. In the eyes of military experts, it was only a matter of time before Singapore fell.
The Japanese army captured Maudanjin and recalled Weiville from Java Island. He urgently ordered the British-Indian 7th Armored Brigade and the British-Indian Army 17th Division, which was set up to be transferred to Singapore, to Myanmar. After doing this, he flew to Chongqing for help from China.
"Lieutenant Colonel Simmons and the newly formed 39th Division led by General Diaanlan have rushed to Mandalay. Deputy Commander Yu Jishi also led the New Eighth Army to follow up. I heard that Wavere gathered 50,000 people in Yangon, and with the reputation of the British Empire, he could have been able to defend the previous week. With this week, we will be Zhuang Ji.
The U.S. liaison team led by Simmons was at the Expeditionary Force headquarters two weeks before the dispatch. According to the Sino-US-UK Military Cooperation Conference, each division of the Expeditionary Force must be equipped with three U.S. liaison officers. Magrud had no enough officers in a hurry, so he had to send out his military delegation. Simmons was lucky to become the leader of the U.S. liaison team and stayed at the Expeditionary Force headquarters.
"General, in Chinese, military information is urgent, and the reinforcements are like putting out fires, and there is no delay." Simmons kept suppressing the fire in his heart. Before coming, the embassy provided information about the general. The information had a high evaluation of the general, believing that his talent and courage were outstanding among Chinese generals. He had successfully commanded the Nanjing Defense War, the Xuzhou Defense War, and the Zaoyang Counterattack War. He was the Chinese general who had the most enemies since the War of Resistance Against Japan.
But after reaching the Expeditionary Force, Simmons did not find any superhuman things about this general. On the contrary, he acted slowly, was petty in his work, and even shamelessly blackmailed his allies. What he cared about was Yangon's supplies and seemed to have no interest in defending Myanmar. Zhuang Jihua smiled faintly, did not answer, and still did not look back. What Simmons said was exactly what he was worried about. Although the British concessions in Chongqing and agreed to China to send troops to Myanmar, they repeatedly set obstacles in specific actions. So before Mao Danjin fell, the Expeditionary Force had not taken a step forward in leaving the country.
When Mao Danjin fell, the British began to panic, but Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing was full of doubts, worried that the British would sacrifice the expeditionary force and be able to consume the expeditionary force and escape to India by themselves. Therefore, Diedian Zhuang Jihua asked him to be cautious and not go deep into the army alone.
But Zhuang Jihua actually started to act long ago. Before Chongqing reached an agreement, Song Yunfei and Zhao Hanjie led two special forces to attack South Myanmar secretly. Yu Chengwan led some staff of the New Eighth Army to form an advance team and advanced to Tamchi. Zhang Geng led the advance team of the 66th Army to Lashio. Huang Botao led the advance team of the Shun Army to also arrive in Mandalay. Only the 58th Army led by Lu Han was still in Baoshan. As for the 103rd Army, they were still gathering in Kunming.
China does not have so many transport aircraft to transport a whole army, including weapons and equipment, from the distant Hubei to Kunming within a week or two. The 103rd Army had two divisions and one brigade, with a total force of 45,000 troops. The transporter alone would be a terrifying number. In the end, the brigade of Lu Ruishan and Liao Yaoxiang's new 22nd Division came from the sky. Sun Liren led the 38th Division on land, but the technical equipment was in the sky.
The sky is now completely the sky of the Chinese Air Force. After the Zero fighter jets briefly dominated the sky, as the prisoner wild horse fighter jets appeared on the Chinese battlefield, the Zero technical advantage gradually disappeared. In addition, the Japanese army needed a large number of aircraft to go north and south, and the main force of the Japanese Air Force was transferred from the Chinese battlefield, which increased and disappeared. The Chinese Air Force regained the dominance of the Chinese sky.
After three weeks of transportation, Liao Yaoxiang's New 22nd Division, Lu Ruishan's *276th Brigade, and the 103rd Army's all technical equipment had arrived in Kunming. However, the New 38th Division led by Sun Liren himself was still at the junction of Yunnan and was heading towards Kunming day and night.
Zhuang Jihua didn't tell Simmons about these situations. From the first sight of Simmons, he knew that this was a soldier who had never been on the battlefield, and his body was full of beauty's arrogance, so he explained it to him. It was unnecessary.
Returning to the battlefield, Zhuang Jihua felt an excitement flowing inside and outside his body. He was trying to suppress this excitement. The enemy situation was serious. Li Anding's intelligence network spread throughout Myanmar promptly transmitted the movements of the Japanese and British troops to the Expeditionary Force Command.
The British troops in Yangon City were the 63rd Brigade of the British and Australian Army and the 1st Division of the British and Burmese Army, the 17th Division of the British and Indian Army and the 7th Armored Brigade. Among these troops, the 17th Division and the Armored Brigade were transferred from India and the Middle East. The morale of the entire British army was depressed. The Burmese and Indians Shi Hai wanted to escape, while the Australian soldiers were thinking of wine and women.
There are three Japanese troops currently found, the 33rd Division and the 35th Division. The 55th Division and the Military Command Bangkok Station reported that the 18th Division of the Japanese army was near Chiang Mai and showed signs of moving westward.
The three divisions were divided into two routes to attack Yangon, the 33rd Division and the 55th Division attacked Yangon along the Yangman Highway, and the 35th Division detoured Ruiwen and inserted into the British side.
The Japanese attack was very smooth. On the 15th, the Salwin River was forced to cross the Salwin River, and on the 17th, the British Billy Line was broken. The British and Indian divisions defeated the 17th Division, and then seized the only bridge on the Xidang River, and the British retreated to Bogu.
Faced with this situation, Zhuang Jihua really had no confidence in defending Yangon. Of course, it would be too late to let Dai Anlan force arrive in Yangon, but the entire expeditionary force would enter the Yangon battlefield one by one. It was a taboo for military strategists to form a tactic of fuel, which he would never want to. But this sentence could not be explained clearly to Simmons. He could not explain it clearly, so he simply ignored him.
"Commander, the telegram Gong Xiuhua reported behind him. Zhuang Jihua turned around and took the telegram from her. This was from Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek reminded him again that the battle in Myanmar should be cautious and not rush to Yangon to go south, and first control northern Myanmar.
"I call back and say that the students obey the order
Zhuang Jihua simply replied that he understood what Chiang Kai-shek meant, and Chiang Kai-shek could not trust the British army. Gong Xiuhua was about to leave. Zhuang Jihua said again: "Call Director He."
Gong Xiuhua was a little surprised, but she didn't say anything and turned around and walked to the group of officers. A thin, short and strong officer walked quickly to the commander.
"Director He, we haven't had a good talk after you come. I hope you don't have any concerns in your heart. I believe that your umbrella is a subordinate of Qishan. I believe that it will not be bad if you pick up small eyes. I hope you can use your talents. Do you understand?"
"Please rest assured, the commander, and understand the humble position." Director He replied.
Director He was recommended by Li Jishen. His experience was also very strange. He was from Hainan. He studied in Malay in his early years and later joined Malaybi. During the Great Revolution, he returned to China and entered the Whampoa Military Academy to study, and transferred to China. After the Great Revolution, he went to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area and became a brave general under Jiang Xianyun and Xu Xiangqian. He once served as the commander of the Red Ninth Army, and was the famous Little Zhuge in the Fourth Front Army.
But his fate changed in the struggle to liquidate Zhang Guozhuo in Yan'an. The liquidation of Zhang Guozhuo in Yan'an affected almost all the generals of the Fourth Front Army. He was afraid that he could not understand and felt threatened, so he left without saying goodbye and left Yan'an and returned to Guangdong. However, his long military career made it difficult for him to adapt to the lives of civilians. Life was once extremely difficult. During the Japanese occupation of Guangzhou, he fled to Wuzhou, Guangxi. After Guangzhou was restored, he returned to Guangzhou. At this time, he met Zhang Guozhuo. Zhang Guozhuo persuaded him to come out to participate in the War of Resistance and recommended him to Li Jishen in Guangzhou. Li Jishen convinced him and then recommended him to Deng Yanda. Deng Yanda happened to need military cadres and immediately reused it. Before the Expeditionary Force went abroad, he recommended it to Zhuang Jihua.
Speaking of Zhang Guozhuo, he had to mention Zhuang Jihua. Zhuang Jihua publicly threatened to avenge Jiang Xianyun among the top leaders of the Kuomintang. Zhang Guozhuo thought it was a joke at first, but later Dai Li and Chen Lifu both warned him seriously that he should be careful. If it falls into Zhuang Jihua's hands, he will definitely die. Zhang Guozhuo was then afraid. He knew that the three southwestern provinces were Zhuang Jihua's sphere of influence, so he never entered the three southwestern provinces. After running around in Jiangxi, Hunan, and after Guangzhou was restored, he went to Guangzhou, serving as a senior officer in the Fourth War Zone and also served as a member of the Guangdong Provincial Government.
There is no doubt that He Wei is a member of the Party. He did not hide it from Zhuang Jihua. He had fought with the Kuomintang for nearly ten years, so it was impossible to let him fall into the Kuomintang's arms. However, when he was at the Whampoa Military Academy, he admired Deng Yanda more, otherwise he would have been 0 members early and followed Di Yanda.
After He Wei arrived at the Expeditionary Force headquarters, Zhuang Jihua appointed him as the commander of the combat department. The former combat director Gong Chu served as deputy chief of staff. Both of them were major generals. In addition, Li Anding also left the Western Yunnan Administrative Office and served as the director of the Intelligence Department of the Expeditionary Force. In the entire Expeditionary Force, except for Deputy Commander Yu Jishi and Chief of Staff Xiao Yisu, the rest were all personnel of the Zhuang Group, which was regarded as a major display of the Zhuang Group.
Zhuang Jihua's concern for He Wei is that he has a somewhat withdrawn personality and should be very smart. This can be proved by the fact that he ran out of Yan'an alone. So far, several senior generals have run out of Yan'an.
He Wei was also a little curious about Zhuang Jihua. When he was in the Red Fourth Front Army, he heard Chen Lian, Xu Xiangqian and Jiang Xianyun and his classmates talked about him in private, and later he saw the article "Morturing Jiang Xianyun" published in the newspaper, which shocked him. It also made him believe that Jiang Xianyun contacted Zhuang Jihua in private, and Zhang Guozhuo did not completely frame him. But after joining the Kuomintang, he realized that Jiang Xianyun was really accused of killing and also knew Zhuang Jihua's declaration of revenge, which made him difficult to understand, because... over there, this behavior is definitely a manifestation of indecisiveness and will be cleansed, but Zhuang Jihua did this, and did it openly without any scruples, which made him even more curious.
"Is there any news about Yu Leisiling?" Zhuang Jihua asked again. Yu Jishi and Xiao Yisu set off the day before yesterday. He went to Mandalay to meet Yu Chengwan who had arrived. At the same time, they reviewed their preparations.
In Zhuang Jihua's mind, if Yangon had been lost before the expeditionary force arrived, then Mandalay would be the first battlefield. Therefore, Yu Jishi and Xiao Yisu first went to Mandalay to organize the troops that arrived one after another.
"The news I received in the morning was that Deputy Commander Yu and Chief of Staff Xiao had already gotten in Lashio and were expected to arrive in Mandalay tonight. However, the news from Captain Song was that the situation in Yangon was very bad, and it was very likely that he had lost before we arrived. He Wei said calmly and returned to the military. He returned to his former keenness and shrewdness.
Zhuang Jihua nodded slightly. This situation was as expected by him. Song Yunfei and Zhao Hanjie entered Myanmar in mid-January. They entered secretly and mixed in the transportation team, so they had arrived in Southern Myanmar. The troops were scattered in the vast area between the Salwin River and Yangon.
"Captain Zhao reported a situation where they prepared to ambush the Japanese transport convoy several times, but none of them succeeded." He Wei said: "It's not that the Japanese army has strict defenses, but that there is no such thing as it is."
Zhuang Jihua turned his head and looked at him, wonderingly: "Nothing at all? What does it mean?"
"I think Captain Zhao means that the Japanese army's attack on Myanmar was carried out without logistics support, and they only had weapons and ammunition they carried with them." He Wei's tone contained a hint of incredible and a little excited.
"No logistical support!?" Zhuang Jihua opened his eyes wide in disbelief. From ancient times to the present, I am afraid that no army has ever fought without logistical support. Perhaps, just like the Red Army's Long March, but these are two completely different situations. The Red Army has no choice but to do so. Why is the Japanese army?
Zhuang Jihua didn’t understand, and He Wei didn’t understand either.
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