This muffled booming explosion, the earth also shook violently, and the dust flew out of a hundred meters away, countless bricks, tiles, and even large pieces of ruins and debris fell from the sky, although the paratroopers besieging the club building had been fully prepared, and had already extended the encirclement back fifty meters, but in the face of countless various items falling from the sky, the Chinese soldiers still found that they seemed to be too close.
When Zhang Zheming, who was the person concerned, crawled out of the cracks of the collapsed sewer covered in dust, after taking a breath of fresh air, Zhang Zheming felt like a world away.
Recalling that after lighting the fuse just now, Zhang Zheming still had palpitations at the rapid burning speed, the British things were really unreliable, and almost killed Lao Tzu, Zhang Zheming, who was stuck in the crack of the ruins, scolded the British while completely forgetting that due to the lack of lighting in the warehouse at that time, his English was two knives, and he took a roll of rapid detonation Sawyer didn't know, the length calculated at the normal burning speed, and almost buried himself in it.
With the earth-shattering explosion of this life, Takano Renichi and his troops and command organs were sent into the night sky by tons of captured TNT, saving him the problem of seppuku, and even if Yamashita Fumimi was in a thunderous rage, it was impossible to drag the person who was blown up to the point that he couldn't even find the scum out of seppuku The loud bang marked the end of the main Japanese resistance in Imphal, and the battle to clear the remnants of the Japanese resistance was still ongoing.
Due to the humid and rainy environment in Burma, the Japanese army's vehicles have been in a semi-intact state due to the shortage of spare parts, and less than one-third of the officers and men of the so-called 10th Temporary Sakai Motorized Infantry Detachment have been able to squeeze into the car, and the remaining officers and men still have to rely on two legs to attack.
The 10th Provisional Sakai Motorized Infantry Detachment, which seemed to have a very strong combat strength and had an absolute superiority in strength, had turned the unit into two parts due to the lack of vehicle marching relations, and it was impossible to concentrate all its forces for a key attack, which made the detachment commander Shiichi Sakai feel very helpless.
For Imphal garrison commander Takano Hitoichiro, Sakai Shiichi has always been ashamed to be a colleague with this kind of person, this kind of coward can even climb to the position of garrison commander, this is what makes Sakai Shitchi very puzzling, this time Takano Hitochi was beaten by the Chinese paratroopers in Imphal and was helpless, hiding in the headquarters and crying for help, which made Sakai Shii secretly refreshed, he thought that Takano Renichi came out of nowhere and snatched the position of garrison commander that should belong to him, and this unexpected surprise attack can also be regarded as a kind of revenge.
So Sakai Shiichi sat very comfortably inside, blowing the cool night breeze, listening to the hoarse Takano Renichi on the radio was constantly pleading and calling, but Sakai Shiichi just didn't reply, he thought that Takano Renichi was just frightened by the small army of the Chinese paratroopers, where did the Chinese people come from, the huge paratrooper army was only a Kume paratrooper brigade in the Japanese Empire, and the Chinese army was just a group of peasants who were temporarily armed, The joke of making a peasant a paratrooper seemed very funny to Sakai Shii, who apparently had a good impression of the squadron and a good sense of himself in 1937.
Before dawn broke, Imphal, who had fought fiercely all night, finally returned to peace, and after the sudden and fierce bombardment by the Allied forces, the airborne landing carried out by the Special Operations Brigade of the Chinese Expeditionary Force can be said to have given the Japanese garrison a blow, almost annihilating the Japanese garrison, but the battle did not end as early as Zhang Zheming intended, but the battle to clear the remnants of the enemy was more cruel and fierce than the attack.
The heaviest losses in Pal were not the Japanese Imphal garrison.
Rather, it is two rotational regiments of officers with more than 100 people and one regiment of non-commissioned officers with more than 300 people.
These people are the basic combat backbone of the Japanese army.
Most of them served as squad leaders, squadron leaders and other front-line combat command positions.
It is precisely these people who resist most fiercely.
Thus unexpectedly resisted strongly.
Zhang Zheming was very excited after finding out the identity of the other party.
Casually killing a little devil is equivalent to eliminating a squad of Japanese, and these grassroots officers, plus Cao Chang and Wu Chang, are almost equal to more than half of the main combat strength of the Japanese army.
The destruction of these more than 500 people was even greater than the annihilation of the two wings of the Japanese army.
Despite the fact that these Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers who had come to rest and relax lacked the necessary weapons and ammunition.
But they have faithfully fulfilled their responsibilities.
Fought to the end.
In the chapel where they last stubbornly resisted.
More than 300 corpses crisscrossed became the last testimony of the poison of Japanese militarist ideology.
The blood of the enemy is our glory, and the Chinese soldiers stepped on the corpses that were still smoking with bayonets, looking for possible existence For the enemy.
These Chinese soldiers, armed with the theory of national righteousness, have the slightest pity.
Be merciful to your enemies.
It's cruel to yourself.
The severance of contact with Imphal gave Yamashita a very bad premonition.
So he again urged the 10th Provisional Sakai Motorized Infantry Detachment to speed up the march.
Imphal is an important buffer between Myanmar and India.
Before the fall of Calcutta.
The existence of this buffer is naturally significant.
Yamashita was still waiting for news from the front line for the attack on Calcutta, and Yamashita Fengwen, who was standing on the Lebi Heights and looking at Kolkata from afar, was full of emotion for a while, and in order to capture this so-called barrier on the outskirts of Kolkata, more than 4,000 loyal and brave generals of the imperial army paid the price with their lives.
After occupying the Lebi Heights, the Yamashita Fengwen was extremely depressed to find that the positions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in India were actually outside the range of their field artillery, and the number of 1 mm howitzers and the shells stored could not support a sufficient density of firepower coverage.
The city of Calcutta in front of him seemed to be divided into two halves by fierce explosions and firefights, and Yamashita knew that it was obvious that the attack of his attacking forces had been blocked, otherwise the front line would not have been sent back without a fight.
The Second Division of the Japanese Army, which was one of the three main divisions and regiments that penetrated this attack, under the command of division commander Kiyozaburo Okazaki, could be said to have entered a no-man's land, and it was on a rampage, killing the British and Indian officers and men who were caught off guard crying for their fathers and mothers, and the third-line British and Indian troops deployed in the city as reserves were not prepared to engage the enemy at all; in the panic, the officers could not find the soldiers, the soldiers could not find the officers, the various units did not know their own combat missions and defense areas, and they became a mess, and many units were surrounded and disarmed by the Japanese army in formations.
In fact, the chaos in the west city has a lot to do with the command style and command habits of the army, all the officers of the British army have graduated from the military academy and have received orthodox tactical command and individual tactical training, but when they arrive at the specific service unit, they will be affected by some so-called habits in the original army, and these unnatural specific inherent practices will generally become a characteristic of a unit of the British army, especially in the army serving overseas.
The British, who were accustomed to being lazy in India, even at the critical juncture when the Japanese army was besieging the city and pressing the border, still thought in accordance with the tactical staff method that had lasted for nearly a hundred years to prepare for war on the first and second lines, and not make arrangements for the third line to take turns on leave.
In the rigorous thinking of the British, what has not happened is equivalent to needing to talk, without any practical meaning, excessive alarmism and concern will be regarded as a manifestation of "personal" cowardice, the most amazing thing is that the British can allow a brigade, a division, or even an army to be cowardly and cowardly, and not to resist bravely in the face of the enemy, but to choose to slip away quietly without honor, they call it a wise transfer, but they cannot tolerate the so-called "personal" cowardice, based on the different cultural heritage of the two peoples, Song Yuhang was puzzled by the fact that the British could portray the Dunkirk retreat as a major victory.
In any case, the facts always speak louder than the strong, and when the defensive line held by the Anglo-Indian troops on the first and second lines collapsed in a very short period of time, the unprepared third-line troops naturally had no way to get things done.
Patton, who had already realized that the general situation was gone, immediately led his command organs to retreat in the direction of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in India to the east of the city under the cover of several units such as the gendarmerie battalion.
Naturally, Kiyosaburo Oka would not give his opponent any opportunity to take advantage of it, and he was bent on taking this glorious first merit, and the 33rd Division and the 15th Division, which followed the 2nd Division, decided to divide the troops into two ways with the 2nd Division as the center, forming three sharp blades directly into the center of the city of Calcutta, in an attempt to penetrate the whole city of Kolkata with one blow, and the easy and huge victory had already overwhelmed their minds, who could care about covering the left and right flanks of the 2nd Division The new commander of the 33rd Division, Nobuo Tanaka, and the commander of the 15th Division, Hiroguchi Takahei, knew very well that these two divisions were disabled when they attacked India for the first time, so they fought in India as if they were holding back a lot of strength, such a huge victory, Okazaki Kiyozaburo really didn't bother to argue with these two people, he believed that with the combat effectiveness of the second division, it was simply easy to destroy the remnants of the Allied troops, especially those troops entrenched in the east of the city happened to be subordinates of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, I believe that this is a great opportunity for him to face the shame of the Battle of Xuelongling
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