In May of this year, the torrential rain in Tuo has gradually turned into a light rain sound, but the battle in Myitkyina is extremely fierce, although the artillery of the Chinese expeditionary force attack is not as fierce as before, but this does not mean that the intensity of the battle will be reduced, in every street, every house, the Chinese soldiers use their individual weapons in their hands to fight to the death with the Japanese army repeatedly, they even dismantled the machine guns on the greyhounds and the anti-aircraft machine guns on the tanks, and used them as infantry support fire.
Kanda called out to Tanaka Shinichi almost every half hour, and his almost pleading tone made Tanaka Shinichiha dare not sit back and watch him mourn any longer.
Unlike Kanda Masasang, who was surrounded by the Chinese Expeditionary Force, Tanaka Shinichi was triumphant at the moment, and he successfully put Yamashita with Yamashita on the issue of whether to send troops to Myitkyina.
Originally from Niigata Prefecture, Shinichi Tanaka was born in Kushiro City, Hokkaido, as the eldest son of Tonaka Ingoro, an agricultural official of the Muramatsu Domain, and attended Sendai Preschool and Central Preschool at an early age.
In May 191, he graduated from the 25th of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and in November 1923, he graduated from the 35th of the Army University.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Shinichi Tanaka actively advocated the expansion of the war against China and increased the number of Japanese troops invading China, and during the Pacific War, he served as the first director of the General Staff Headquarters, and strongly advocated war against the United States and Britain.
In January 19411, he was promoted to lieutenant general.
Due to the great changes in history, Tanaka Shinichi was not transferred to the General Headquarters of the Southern Army because of the strong confrontation with Hideki Tojo due to the issue of ships in the Battle of Guadalcanal, but was transferred as the successor of Kawabe Shozo, so Tanaka Shinichi often put on an ambitious appearance, but he never expected that the fiasco of Kawabe Shozo under Longling Castle would ruin his career, and at the same time shake the trust of the base camp in the current official of the Burmese Front.
Since Shinichi Tanaka also participated in previous battles such as Kunming, when selecting the successor commander of the front army, the royalists reached an agreement with Hideki Tojo, and the base camp temporarily decided to use Yamashita Fumi.
The most direct impact of Yamashita's arrival was that Tanaka Shinichi completely became a figure standing on the sidelines, not only was the post of commander of the front army hopeless, but even the chief of staff of the front army was replaced under the strong recommendation of Yamashita Fengfumi.
Shinichi Tanaka, who had waited for more than two years, was indignant at this, because if he could not take up the post of commander of the front army in a few years and make considerable achievements in his office, otherwise he would have no hope of being a general for the rest of his life.
Tanaka Shinichi was desperately urging the troops to change to trains to move forward quickly, so he deliberately mobilized 14 locomotives through Nachai, in order to ensure the rapid transportation of troops, although Tanaka Shinichi did not like these annoying Burmese very much, but in Burma many things must rely on them, not only can save the precious troops of the imperial army, but also can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
When Myitkyina was in full swing, a unit of the Japanese Marine Corps attacked Chittagong, and the Japanese logistics base had been moved from Hikoma to Guwahati, a strategic location on the banks of the Brahmaputra River, and the outskirts of Kolkata were actually surrounded by Japanese troops.
According to the agreement between Song Yuhang and Mountbatten, the Chinese Expeditionary Force is not conducive to the southeast of the defensive area, and the British and Indian allied forces are sticking to the east-west positions that are more difficult to attack and easy to defend, and the British army is a long-defeated division, and Mountbatten is very helpless to serve as the nominal commander-in-chief, because the extremely embarrassing performance of the British and Indian troops makes him really shameless to debate with the Chinese army about the ownership of the final command.
Moreover, at this moment, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in India has increased dramatically because of the replenishment of thousands of armored soldiers, and Mountbatten even wants to pull the troops out and deal a blow to the arrogant and ignorant Yamashita Fengwen, so that he can know that he knows how powerful he is, so that the Japanese, who are so poor that they even wrap their underwear in cloth, can experience what is called the power of the torrent of steel.
Very helplessly.
Mountbatten was unable to mobilize this force.
The commander of this unit even threw the text of the order given to Mountbatten by Stilwell and Chongqing to Brigadier General Edward, who had gone to the test site.
And told Brigadier General Edward in an extremely arrogant tone: In addition to the orders of Deputy Commander Song.
All other places are toilet papyrus Finally, he threatened Brigadier General Edward.
Next time, don't knock on the door and go straight to the ground.
I'm going to kick Edward in the ass.
And hit into a panda.
Wide-brimmed glasses with large black rims.
Brigadier General Edward, who was nearly sixty years old, entered the hospital in a fit of rage.
Sadly, he hadn't seen what a panda looked like Mountbatten remembers a Chinese proverb.
What people play with what birds.
Song Yuhang can be described as notorious.
His subordinates were like him out of the same mold, so Mountbatten could only coordinate at best.
It turned out that General Sun Liren and General Liao Yaoxiang had to be more scruples before.
After Stilwell ran away.
There is also a bad example of perennial restriction.
Mountbatten realized that he wanted to command the squadron directly, and he couldn't even think about it The Anglo-Indian army was also preparing for war.
But the British army was always enveloped by a sense of defeat.
This breath is no different from the defeat of the British army from Burma, and it can be said that the British army has not yet crawled out of the shadow of the defeat of that year.
The British with Many encounters, without exception, all ended in the defeat of the British army, and then became a serious soft persimmon for the Japanese.
The 2nd Division under the command of Kiyozaburo Okazaki was the vanguard of the entire Indian attack corps, and as the new core division commander under Yamashita Fengfumi, Okazaki Kiyozaburo knew a lot of inside information about the attack, such as the fact that Yamashita had mobilized all the materials and ammunition he could mobilize for this attack, and the convoy that departed from Yangon and went to Kohima through Mandalay was nothing more than smoke and bait released by the 9th Heavy Army.
For the pioneer Okazaki Kiyozaburo is extremely happy, in his opinion Kolkata is already in the pocket of the Imperial Japanese Army, the capture of Calcutta, not only can the astronomical amount of materials and weapons be captured, but also the Imperial Japanese Army can get a natural deep-water port in the Bay of Bengal, the port of Kolkata with the powerful maritime strength of the combined fleet, the British power will be completely expelled will be destined to become a historical term, and the great Great Japanese Empire will take its place.
In the middle of the month, the US military transported a large number of Spitfire tanks, rocket artillery that had appeared in Hengyang, China, and nearly 20,000 officers and men of the 2nd Marine Division to the Guadalcanals.
Suddenly, the situation on the Guadalcanal Islands was reversed, and the garrison of Guadalcanal, which was formed by the 10th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army, was suddenly covered by the overwhelming firepower of the US army, and the US rocket artillery also used a kind of latest incendiary bomb, which was extremely powerful and had a strong incendiary effect, and it almost became a nightmare for the Japanese garrison, and as long as the US army was attacked in a certain area, it would immediately use rocket artillery to cover the area.
The jungle ambush warfare, which the Japanese army is best at, often turns its ambush site directly into a cemetery and crematorium For this reason, the army, including the senior staff in the base camp, are calling on the Imperial Navy to fight a decisive battle with the United States as soon as possible in order to defend the empire's lifeline in the Pacific, and the senior deputy of the base camp, Nagashima Yamao, directly pointed out that Yamamoto Isoroku's plan is to increase more bargaining chips for the enemy, knowing that the enemy's industrial strength is much greater than ours on the whole, and Shimayama also put forward the argument that the later the decisive battle will be more unfavorable for the empire, and Yamamoto Isoroku was forced to suspend his plan to accumulate strength for a decisive battle in the Pacific Ocean under pressure from all sides.
May 1944, this day will be destined to be recorded in history, the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Myitkyina, located in Asia Minor, and the Japanese Sixth Division fought a bloody battle, the two sides tore apart, and the main force of the Japanese Burma Front moved to India, the front of the troops pointed directly at Calcutta, the material storage and distribution center, also on this day, the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet began to assemble in the 112309 Sea, Yamamoto 56 personally drafted the action code name "Crane", planning to use the Yunnan command of the main fleet feint as a bait, A large-scale attack on the Guadalcanals, attracting the US military to mistakenly believe that it was the main force, and maneuvering behind it with the cooperative fleet commanded by Yamamoto, made the US Navy decision-makers have an anti-thinking logic error, and let go of the real main force to attack the Yamamoto fleet, and its main force took the opportunity to break the US landing force, and then reversed and broke the US fleet surrounding Yamamoto one by one.
Yamamoto Fifty-six was a little helpless about this, but it was his life's wish to be able to command the Imperial Navy to fight to the death with a powerful opponent at sea for the sake of the rise and fall of the Imperial Kingdom, and Yamamoto even had a little more expectation for the upcoming big war.
The US naval intelligence also paid close attention to the Japanese Navy's intention to fight a decisive battle, and Nimitz decided to activate the "revenge" plan that had been drawn up long ago, and the Imperial Japanese Navy Wing Fleet and the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, two behemoths with the world's top three tonnage in terms of tonnage, finally kicked off the fateful Armageddon.
At this moment, Song Yuhang under the city of Myitkyina is unaware of this, it can also be said that this means that the decisive naval battle between Japan and the United States has nothing to do with him at all, the Americans win, the Japanese army will suddenly change from a strategic offensive to a strategic defense, and the Pacific chain islands it is entrenched in, including its own territory, will be all exposed to the scope of the US military's attack, if the US army is unfortunately defeated, then the Japanese army will crisscross the Pacific Ocean, and even threaten the east coast of the United States, completely blockading China, cutting off the last access to US aid materials, and the Chinese people will fall into the blockade of the Japanese invadersSong Yuhang is not still afraid of this, because as long as there is still a Chinese person alive, the anti-aggression war will be carried out to the end, and as long as there are still people resisting, China will not die At this moment, Song Yuhang can only honestly act as a bystander or witness to history, and all his attention is focused on the small city of Naba between Myitkyina and Mandalay, where the Chinese expeditionary force will face the greatest danger in history: