Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 1,112 Put it to death

Faced with a desperate situation and being ambushed and suffering heavy losses, the British Chief of Staff, Major General Francis, who commanded the troops to break out to Lipao, was surrounded by Japanese troops. When the situation was irreversible, he had to consider surrendering to the Japanese army.

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The current situation does not require Mandalay. The British army at that time at least had strong fortifications that could resist, and the materials hoarded in Mandalay could support the troops until reinforcements arrived, but Libao was in the wild

In the Grand Canyon, the troops were suddenly attacked during their march. From the beginning, they fell into an extremely passive state.

There is no food and grass inside, heavy casualties, no reinforcements outside, and the Japanese army has the upper hand. Is this battle still possible? Moreover, European tradition does not think highly of surrendering to the opponent when the situation is irreversible.

How shameful it is, or the loss of military integrity. This point is very different from the Eastern concept. It is very different.

There is no such thing as a "fight to the death" among Europeans. The reason is very good. In order to reduce suffering and avoid greater casualties, in history, in the Southeast Asian battlefield of World War II, the British and American troops put up a little resistance when they were surrounded by the Japanese army.

, or did not resist at all and surrendered to the Japanese army one after another. It can be said that generals surrendered like a tide and troops surrendered like a hair.

Even Alexander, the commander-in-chief of the British army, rushed to India. The commander-in-chief of the US military in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, General MacArthur, who later provoked the Korean War and served as the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, even more simply, the Japanese bombarded the capital of the Philippines.

In Manila, this American five-star general abandoned hundreds of thousands of soldiers and took a boat to Australia to avoid the limelight.

It was not until two years later that General Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, defeated the Japanese navy and air force in several major naval battles in the South Pacific, almost leaving nothing behind, and was unable to recover.

Under his protection, he returned to the Philippines and continued to be his emperor.

This is not just a strange thing that happens to miscellaneous troops on the Chinese battlefield. The British and Americans did even worse than the Chinese in the Southeast Asian war. Regarding this period of history,

, the British and Americans kept their secrets secret, and rarely mentioned anything about similar situations that occurred on the Chinese battlefield. It was rare that they did not criticize even a few words.

Francis was just doing things according to tradition. Therefore, when he saw Captain Jeldman, he couldn't help but be very surprised. The first thing he asked was, "Jack, the Japanese let you come back? What conditions did they bring?"

Hearing this, Jeldman burst into tears and burst into tears. He choked and shouted "Chief of Staff!" and could no longer speak.

When Francis listened to Jeldman tell the truth about everything he saw, it was like a bolt from the blue, hitting his forehead suddenly, making stars appear in his eyes, and he was dizzy. The Japanese actually shot him who put down his weapons.

As a prisoner of war, he was still here with beautiful illusions, negotiating with the Japanese about surrender, and looking for a way to survive for hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

He thought wrongly. The Japanese did not want prisoners of war. When he thought of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who laid down their weapons and were massacred with bare hands by the Japanese army, with corpses strewn across the fields and rivers of blood flowing in the bloody scene, Francis couldn't help but shudder. His one thought almost killed him.

Send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the slaughter knife of the Japanese.

He completely believed Jeldman's words. The rearguard troops were wiped out extremely cleanly, and no one escaped. Originally, he thought they were sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, but now it seems that they were massacred.

Jeldman's words also shocked all the senior British officers present. Immediately, the atmosphere in the cave became as oppressive and cold as solidification.

After a long time, Francis raised his head, looked at these senior officers, and said: "Everyone, the reality is before our eyes. Even if we surrender to the Japanese army, we will be massacred. My opinion is that while the rearguard troops hold their ground, they will continue to attack

Send troops to open the road from Libao Grand Canyon to Myitkyina at any cost. Doing so may ruin this troops."

After saying that, he looked at these officers quietly. The officers' faces changed drastically. They all knew in their hearts that surrender was a dead end. This was not only what Jeldman had seen with his own eyes, but also for the Japanese gunfire.

They had also heard a little bit about the prisoners of war, but deep down, they didn't want to believe it.

Jeldman confirmed this rumor. Since there is no way out, it is better to fight to the death and maybe find a way out than to stick out your neck and wait for the Japanese to chop. When they raise their heads again, the eyes of these officers

Here, there is already perseverance and determination.

Francis felt relieved and continued: "Okay, let's start deploying now. The 11th, 13th, 19th Infantry Divisions, 7th and 8th Mixed Brigades will strengthen the rear defense line overnight. All Japanese attacks must be blocked.

They were firmly nailed there to buy time for the troops who opened the passage. The remaining troops launched an uninterrupted attack on the northern exit of the Libao Grand Canyon. In addition, they shot the Japanese prisoners of war and refused to accept our army's surrender.

The troops conveyed.”

As the saying goes, "Sorrowful soldiers will win, and they will die and survive." At one o'clock in the morning that night, I knew that there was no way out. Even if they laid down their weapons, the Japanese would not let go of their British and Burmese soldiers, which aroused the fighting spirit and passion in their hearts.

Xueqi launched a desperate attack on the Japanese position at the southern foot of the Libao Grand Canyon.

The already silent battlefield suddenly erupted with fierce gunfire. Not many Japanese soldiers had enjoyed the day's fighting and were fighting smoothly. They never expected that the British, who were already bruised and dying, actually launched an attack on their own initiative. Until the British

The soldier suddenly realized it when he touched it under his nose.

In the dark night, there was a short burst of gunfire, and then the red-eyed British and Burmese soldiers rushed into the Japanese position without fear of death. After a period of hand-to-hand fighting, the British soldiers who were forced to have no other way out burst out with unprecedented courage and ferocity.

After a life-and-death struggle of bayonet against bayonet and fist against fist, the Japanese positions on both sides of the Libao Grand Canyon, which blocked the northern evacuation route, were actually occupied in many places.

When Francis heard the news, he immediately invested a large number of troops again. At about four o'clock in the morning, the east gradually became brighter. The British army fought for more than three hours at the cost of more than 20,000 casualties, and finally occupied and consolidated the territory of Kabul.

Japanese positions on the retreat road.

After learning the news, the commander of the Japanese Ribo ambush force, Lieutenant General Takashima Eemon, was shocked and angry. After being furious, he immediately deployed the elite troops of three divisions to repeatedly compete with the British army for the lost positions.

By around eight o'clock in the morning, the positions on both sides of the northern foot passage of Libao Grand Canyon were still firmly in the hands of the British army.

In the melee in the middle of the night, the Japanese ambush force, which had almost no casualties during the day, suffered heavy losses. More than 20,000 Japanese soldiers lay on the damp and cold ground. In order to keep this lifeline, the British army paid tens of thousands more lives.

At the price, the corpses of soldiers from both sides covered the green mountains and rivers in central Myanmar, and their blood stained the grass under their feet, turning it a shocking red.

After learning that the Riho Grand Canyon and the northern passage were occupied by the British, Genzaburo Ito, commander-in-chief of Japan's Southeast Asia Expeditionary Forces, made his first order to immediately remove Lieutenant General Takashima Eemon from his post and submit it to a military court.

The sudden change made Ito, who had always thought that Zhizhu was in control and in control of the situation, panicked.

It took a lot of effort to lure the British out of Mandalay, which had strong city defenses, and rush to Libao, a place where they had all the advantages. But at the critical moment, Takashima, who was otherwise stuck in his pocket, actually let the British

If Takashima's military rank was not low, even if he was a colonel officer, Ito would personally cut off this idiot's pig head.

Ito Yanzaburo was so angry that his eyes almost burst into flames. Now, it was almost impossible to recapture the exit of the northern foothills. The chasing troops had no way to cross the canyon and get in front of the British. However, the British troops at the southern foot of the canyon were extremely resistant.

The usual ferocity is often in a position, and the British soldiers fight to the last man without retreating.

Just when a fierce battle broke out at the northern foot of the canyon, Ito ordered the chasing troops to join the attack. The result was similar to that of Takashima's troops. The fight lasted until about eight o'clock in the morning. The British refused to give in and the Japanese troops retreated across the entire line.

It was blocked and suffered a lot of casualties. Even though Ito called in aviation to assist in the battle and bombarded the British's crude position with the fiercest artillery fire, he was unable to shake the British blocking line.

The Japanese army advanced smoothly step by step, but stopped here. He could not understand how the British, who were already a turtle in the urn and dying, seemed to have taken stimulants. In just a few hours, the soldiers broke out in an astonishing way.

The fighting will of the combat power? Under the circumstances of suffering a heavy blow during the day, actively attack the Imperial Japanese Army.

Unbelievable, simply unbelievable. In the headquarters, Ito kept shaking his head and muttering to himself. He thought a lot in his head, but there was still no clear answer. He would never have thought that just because of his order "No prisoners of war"

, which led to the Japanese soldiers being able to shoot and kill prisoners at will. It happened that a British commander who was injured but not dead saw all this. Perhaps, there was a destiny, and Ito's order to reduce his troubles in the future became

The British soldiers fought desperately.

The British troops who had broken through the obstacle were like a flood that burst the embankment, rushing toward the exit of the southern foot of the Libao Grand Canyon. The Japanese ambush troops could no longer block this torrent of hope, and even sent out troops to stop it.

, were all swept away by this torrent. This was a crazy and violent torrent, running wildly towards Myitkyina like a wild horse.

When he learned that most of the British troops had broken out of his carefully designed ambush circle, Ito Yanzaburo roared furiously, "Pursuit across the board!" However, his seemingly furious words lacked the confidence and confidence he had before.

(To be continued)

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