Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 1118: The Impossible Yin Dun River

General Ito Genzaburo, the commander-in-chief of Japan's Southeast Asia Expeditionary Force, was like a hungry wolf that smelled the smell of blood. He grabbed hundreds of thousands of British and Burmese troops and refused to let go. Starting from Mandalay, he picked up flesh and bones step by step.

, and now, his blood-red eyes are fixed on the Yindun River, the most insurmountable natural obstacle on the road to Myitkyina.

Therefore, after Mandalay and the Libao Grand Canyon, the south bank of the Yindun River became a battlefield for fighting. On the battlefield where one side was being chased and the other side was eager to resolve the battle, there was a third-party force in Libao.

On the more than 100-kilometer-long front line to the Yindun River, people were waiting for action, watching with cold eyes as blood and flesh flew everywhere, turning into a battlefield of grueling fighting.

Watching the British corpses strewn across the fields, watching the Japanese offensive like a tide, watching the two sides struggling together, although the casualties vary, such a melee involving hundreds of thousands of people cannot go smoothly without the Japanese paying some price.

to resolve the battle.

This unit is the five brigades commanded by Yu Guanghan, chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Regiment of the ** Division. Since entering this front-line position, Yu Guanghan's ears have been filled with fierce gunfire every day.

The sound of gunfire had nothing to do with him. Even though he was furious, he sent a telegram to his division commander Tang Qiuli with a vague intention but an obvious intention.

In addition to the answer of "Stand still and watch indifferently, it is a violation of military law", the orders he received in the future were to continue to lurk and wait. Yu Guanghan felt uncomfortable, so he took the members of the headquarters and five brigade commanders to carry out the mission every day.

Go to the road leading to Myitkyina and observe the situation.

It really opened his eyes to the British who were running out of breath and throwing away their armor. Then Yu Guanghan shook his head and chased the Japanese with great energy. The Japanese who also staggered on their feet made him smack his teeth.

It's an eye-opener. I've seen troops in such a state of embarrassment, but I've never seen troops running like this and vomiting blood.

After a while, a group of British men who had taken off their armor ran over, and the next time, another group of little devils who looked like they had taken aphrodisiacs were chasing after them. After watching it for a few days, it was the same situation. Not only a few brigade commanders were tired of it.

, Yu Guanghan also lost interest.

After returning to the hiding place, Yu Guanghan took several brigade commanders and conducted a simulation on the sand table according to the British retreat route and method, as well as the Japanese pursuit route and tactics, and came up with a very simple, but surprising

The unpredictable conclusion is that the British army's strategic retreat actually turned into a great rout.

There is only one road from Mandalay to Myitkyina. The rest are either rugged mountain roads or need to pass through primeval forests. If the British arranged different troops on this only road to carry out repeated attacks, not only

He would not have been chased so miserably by the Japanese, and would have made the little Japanese pay a heavy price. Every step he took was a hail of bullets, and mines and bombs were everywhere.

Along the way, there are many places suitable for ambush and blocking. From Yu Guanghan's perspective, there are no less than a few hundred places. In any case, hundreds of thousands of troops cannot be beaten so badly by the little devils. A brigade commander even

Said: "Chief of Staff, if our army encounters such a situation, as long as I lead my brigade, I can prevent the little Japs from moving even an inch and retreat to Myitkyina. Along the way, I can eat tens of thousands of little Japs.

Do you believe the promise that many people will not die?"

Including Yu Guanghan, several other brigade commanders absolutely believed in this brigade commander's words. If it were another brigade, they would not be able to let the little Japanese fight like this. Therefore, he could not understand at all that the British came from Manchu.

Dele retreated all the way to the south bank of the Yindun River, leaving behind more than 200,000 people, who were slaughtered by the Japanese army like melons and vegetables. After studying the strange phenomena that occurred on the battlefield, Yu Guanghan lost interest.

The Englishman and the little devil were not opponents of the same level at all. Except for the slightly outstanding desperate effort in Libao Grand Canyon, the others were not worth mentioning. In the end, he said to several brigade commanders in summary words

: "This motherfucker is screaming

What kind of battle? One of them just ran north without stopping, and the other chased them along the road, just like chasing a duck. Did you see that a few squadrons of little devils dared to march thousands or tens of thousands of British soldiers?

Fighting fiercely in a crowd, this battle is hopeless."

After receiving war situation reports from Yu Guanghan and Chu Tian from different angles, Tang Qiuli, who had arrived in Myitkyina, carefully marked the location of the Yin Dun River on the map. The survival of the British depended on it.

How many people could cross this big river was Alexander's last asset.

However, according to his judgment, if Alexander did not take some measures, the British would drink the Dunjiang River, and the outcome of the entire army would be inevitable. Tang Qiuli himself also secretly claimed that Ito Yanzaburo's reinforcement method, this Japanese commander, was very

Isn’t it simple?

Knowing that he was attacking Myitkyina, and that Juichi's remnant army in the temple was no match for the Japanese Army, even if it came from a long distance, many troops would have to be stationed here, and it would also affect the Battle of Mandalay, so he

They simply stood still and clung to Mandalay. After receiving the telegram from Juichi Terauchi, they used their tactics to allow the British to easily break through Mandalay.

The so-called "surrounding three and missing one, annihilating the enemy in the wild." It seems that Ito has read Chinese military books. Setting up an ambush in the Ribo Grand Canyon can be said to be a wonderful stroke. However, the British burst out with combat power that Ito did not expect.

, with the unsatisfactory result, they seized the Yindun River, the last natural barrier, ignored the scattered British troops, and strictly ordered the troops to penetrate fiercely.

Using all the air power to block all the ferries of the Yindun River, bombing the bridges and roads along the way, slowing down the retreat of the British army, and never giving up until all the British were killed, Tang Qiuli saw all of Ito's intentions.

One thing about the battle deployment was that he was not sure yet. If part or most of the British army successfully crossed the Yindun River, would Ito continue to pursue it north?

If Ito orders his troops to cross the Yundun River and continue to pursue the retreating British troops in the direction of Myitkyina, then Ito will have the confidence and strength to compete with the troops of the Japanese Army in the area south of Myitkyina, or in other words, he will

Taking advantage of the remaining power of annihilating the British army and attacking the north with a victorious army, we will have the determination and confidence to resolve the Indochina issue in one go.

If Ito stops at the south bank of the Yundun River and aims to annihilate most of the British troops, his next move will be to turn around and attack Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam in the southeast, or turn south and attack Sumatra through the Malay Peninsula Corridor.

and Kalimantan Island, it is still not certain. Ito's actions also represent the strategic intentions of the Japanese base camp.

In addition to the Kwantung Army, Ito's Southeast Asia Expeditionary Force is currently the largest Japanese combat group outside the homeland.

Carrying Emperor Hirohito's ambition and ambition to expand territory in Southeast Asia, Tang Qiuli did not want Ito to continue to invade the north, or at least not cross the Yinton River immediately by keeping an eye on the Ito Group to judge the Japanese's movements.

With the ** division currently concentrated in northern Myanmar, there are eight brigades directly under the corps. Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps has 11 brigades, which can be used for mobile operations, but only eight brigades, with more than 200,000 troops

, facing the Japanese army of more than 400,000 people, the battle can be fought, but it will be more difficult to use the troops.

It is also not in line with Tang Qiuli's consistent strategy of "concentrating superior forces and annihilating the Japanese army in every battle." The Gangao Mountains are a good place to use troops, so the main purpose of the campaign deployment is to defeat the Japanese army.

Tang Qiuli was not crazy enough to completely annihilate or wipe out most of Japan's Southeast Asia Expeditionary Force.

The pattern of the Burmese battlefield has basically been formed. It has become a foregone conclusion that the British retreated to Burma and were dying. The next step was the battle between the Japanese Army Division and the Japanese Southeast Asian Expeditionary Force. In order to make Ito feel threatened, on the evening of June 10th, that is,

The night Chief of Staff Chang Feng expressed his different opinions on the riot incident of Japanese prisoners of war.

Tang Qiuli ordered Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan Garrison Corps and Ma Chaoyang's Southeast Mobile Corps, which were busy clearing out the remaining Japanese and British forces in the southeastern Indochina Peninsula, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and establishing a local management system for the ** division.

, each took out seven brigades of troops, which were personally commanded by two people, and immediately moved towards Burma.

In the order, Tang Qiuli specifically emphasized that the troops should march in a concealed manner and not be discovered by the Japanese army, and use key locations on the west bank of the Salween River as assembly points. Among them, Feng Jiwu's troops used Taunggyi in central Myanmar.

Ma Chaoyang's troops took the fortress in southern Myanmar as the center point of their strategic deployment and extended to both wings.

In this way, thirty brigades of the ** Division and more than 400,000 troops were concentrated in the Burma area. When Ito Yanzaburo saw this formation, he had to weigh his own weight if he wanted to fight. Then, the corps of the ** Division slowly

Suppressing the Japanese army and forcing the Japanese to side with the Americans was Tang Qiuli's real purpose.

Originally, he wanted to have a long talk with Chang Feng, but there were other important things and it was delayed. Tang Qiuli had to find another opportunity, so the matter was put on hold for the time being. Chang Feng, except that he talked less, was good at everything else.

As usual, Tang Qiuli was somewhat relieved and focused all his energy on paying attention to the situation on the Yindunjiang battlefield.

Ito's strict order achieved obvious results. With the support of tanks and artillery, the pursuing Japanese troops rushed towards the south bank of the Yindu River. The British, who were already in chaos, suffered this fierce blow.

With one punch, the chaos became even more chaotic.

Francis worked hard and braved the indiscriminate bombing by Japanese aircraft. He had just sorted out some clues about the scattered troops and sent out soldiers looking for a place to ford the river. They had not returned yet. Suddenly, gunfire started not far away from the rear.

With a loud noise, a terrible news spread among the British and Burmese soldiers, "The Japanese have rushed to a place less than five kilometers away from the river!"

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