In the end, only more than 100 remnants of the third echelon were able to withdraw from Imphal, and the failed attack caused Sakai to lose all the grassroots officers, and even the communications staff officers of the three detachment headquarters, although the operation to seize the commanding heights in Imphal City West Street Crossing suffered an unprecedented defeat, but Sakai Tithe was not completely fruitless, at least from the tactical deployment of the Chinese paratroopers to surround three and annihilate the second of them, it exposed the weakness of the insufficient strength of the Chinese paratroopers.
"It's too reluctant" Sakai Shiyi sighed slightly, if he could let the troops attack after resting, he would have a better grasp.
Just as the 10th Provisional Sakai Motorized Infantry Detachment of the Japanese Army launched a new round of attacks on the commanding heights of Imphal, the fierce battle in the Naba Valley had ended with a loud sound of shaking the mountains.
Song Yuhang climbed to the top of the valley and looked at the valley where the gunsmoke was still full of gunsmoke and frequent guns, he knew that victory was not far away, and after countless battles and deployments, the Chinese Expeditionary Force was finally able to annihilate the main force of the Japanese army in Burma in one battle, and this brilliant victory created the largest number of Japanese troops annihilated by the squadron in a battle since the Anti-Japanese War.
However, in the face of this decisive victory in this local battlefield, Song Yuhang could not be happy; due to the great changes in history, the resignation of Shozo Kawabe, the former commander of the Burmese Front, and Yamashita Fumi, who was originally going to spend time in the Kwantung Army, was transferred to the commander of the newly formed Indian Mainland Dispatch Army after becoming the commander of the Burma Front.
It can be said that behind the brilliant victory of the Chinese Expeditionary Force commanded by Song Yuhang, it also bears huge sacrifices, and it is the most appropriate for the Chinese Expeditionary Force at this moment.
The remnants of the Japanese army in the Naba Valley were resisting, and the only way for the red-eyed Chinese soldiers to talk to the Japanese army was bayonets, and the Japanese army naturally resisted desperately in order to survive, and when the Japanese army blew up the cracks in the valley to prevent the Chinese expeditionary force from taking advantage of the situation to pursue, the last resistance of the Japanese army completely collapsed.
However, at this moment, there were still nearly 10,000 fighters and thousands of wounded in the valley of the Ri Valley, which was compressed in a section of the valley of less than a kilometer, and such a dense Japanese army was crowded in a small space, and every shell of the Chinese Expeditionary Force would blow up more than a dozen Japanese soldiers.
The mess, the stumps and broken arms everywhere, the mourning of the dying wounded, the buzzing flies and a pair of distracted eyes made the chief of staff of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, Major General Nanmu Shuicheng, extremely sad, Nanmu Shuicheng knew that his people had been ruthlessly abandoned, even if he ordered the troops to carry out a decisive counterattack at this moment, not many people would carry it out.
The morale and morale of the troops were dispersed, Nanmu Shuicheng slowly knelt down in the direction of Dongfang's hometown, and several staff officers on the side were indifferently watching Chief of Staff Xu want to commit suicide After weeping bitterly, Nanmu Shuicheng prayed again. : A shocking decision.
He ordered a general ceasefire.
All the generals immediately laid down their weapons on the spot.
Hearing this order, Mizuki Dazuo, a senior combat staff officer on the side, was so excited that he drew his sword and was about to chop Nanmu Shuisang, who was prepared, Nanmu Shuicheng used his own spear to shoot Mizuki Dazuo several times in a row, killing him.
None of the people in the venue cared about Daisa Mizuki who fell in a pool of blood.
It was as if the killing ground was nothing more than an extremely insignificant fellow.
"The remnants of the Japanese army have surrendered," Song Yuhang looked at Xu Tu'an in disbelief to bring the news.
It was as if the answer was on Xu Tuan's face.
Xu Tu'an nodded earnestly and confirmed, "Five minutes ago."
Major General Minamiki Mizunari, Chief of Staff of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, ordered to abandon resistance.
Surrender to our army, Bai Ming and Liang Chao have not dealt with the surrender of the Japanese army.
They are all trying to restrain their troops, and I ask the deputy commander. ” "Let's go meet this daring Japanese.
Dare to surrender to me, Song Yuhang" The surrender of the Japanese army made Song Yuhang feel frustrated, it seems that he has been committed to creating the image of a butcher, but he has not been able to scare the Japanese.
After graduating from the Army University with honors, Minamiki Mizunari successively served as the vice minister of recruitment of the Hokkaido Reserve Army, the captain of the 55th Garrison Brigade of the Manchu Mengdong Branch of the Kwantung Army, the general staff officer of the General Staff Headquarters of the Shina Dispatch Army, the deputy chief of staff of the director of the military police of the Southern Army, and was promoted to major general in early 1944 as the chief of staff of the 18th Division.
There are too many people who have died for this war, so much that his nerves have been completely numbed Nan Mu Shuicheng sat quietly on a stone full of bloodstains, and the blackened bloodstains made people feel kind no matter when they looked at it The feeling of the heart.
A small Japanese army that refused to lay down its arms and surrendered to the end, stubbornly resisted to the end, and immediately collapsed under the strafing fire of the machine guns of the 3 light tanks, and the end of the last resistance of the Japanese army marked the end of the 15-day Battle of Naba, which ended with the victory of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
In the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the city of Naba, under the watchful eyes of two rows of murderous gun-wielding gendarmes, Song Yuhang accepted Nanmu Shuicheng's surrender as a victor, and took Nanmu Shuicheng's samurai sword respectfully held above his head with both hands.
Song Yuhang hesitated for a long time on the question of how to deal with these prisoners, and finally Song Yuhang decided to throw this burden to Song Xisuo's headquarters of the Eleventh Army, which followed behind, and his immediate priority was to lift the Japanese siege of Calcutta and restore the smooth flow of international supply lines.
The Battle of Naba made Song Yuhang soberly realize how unrealistic the previous idea of a quick victory was, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force could only form an absolute superiority in firepower projection against the Japanese army in local and campaign areas at the moment, and it was often less than the Japanese army in terms of troops, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which had achieved a certain degree of mechanization, relied far more on logistics than the Japanese army.
Concentrate the main force immediately: Imphal is the only thing Song Yuhang can do at the moment, this ruined move is also forced out, lifting the siege of Kolkata can not only restore the air transport of the Hump route, but also open up the Indo-Burmese and Burmese highways, but Song Yuhang left a mind on the issue of advancing into India.
Although it is said that it is for China to open up an international supply line of life and death, there is also an element of fire for the British, which alone makes Song Yuhang very uncomfortable.
Song Yuhang could not allow the Chinese expeditionary force to repeat the mistakes of history, paid a huge price to occupy Burma, and finally was beaten by the so-called Burma clause by the British.
What Song Yuhang had to do was to let Britain invite the Chinese Expeditionary Force to fight in India, and enjoy all the privileges of the British army in India, which could collect materials, recruit soldiers, and establish a temporary administrative organization on the spot.
However, there are many things at the political level that Song Yuhang is not qualified to discuss, or what he asks for has long been beyond the scope of his authority, and all this depends on the ambitious Chairman Chiang in Chongqing, who has always supported him.
For this reason, Song Yuhang wrote a long letter, Chiang Kai-shek stated that the purpose of which was related to the future layout, because it involved secrets at this time, in order to prevent the leakage of the telegram, the letter was carried by Song Yuhang's adjutant Wei Ada, and arrived in Chongqing by plane to present the commission.
When Chiang Kai-shek received this letter, it was already the evening of May 18, the second day when the Chinese Expeditionary Force closed the radio stations at all levels to implement the lonely radio station, and the brilliant victory in the Battle of Naba had made Chiang Kai-shek really proud in the international arena, although the aura of this battle was covered by the naval battle of the Guadalcanal Islands between Japan and the United States, but compared with the relatively calm Soviet-German battlefield, this large-scale battle carried out by the Chinese army did have its brilliance.
The standard is that the Chinese army has been able to assume an important position at the level of large-scale strategy and campaign, and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army has been affirmed at one time, on the contrary, the Royal Army of the British Empire and the troops of various colonies have been repeatedly defeated, and the British army has become a representative of low combat effectiveness among the Allied forces, especially in the Asian theater.
Since receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the expeditionary force on 16 June about Naba's victory, Chiang Kai-shek has been busy with various celebrations organized by people from all walks of life in the past two days, and Chiang Kai-shek's enthusiasm for donations has greatly touched the hearts of the people.
When Chiang Kai-shek returned to the Huangshan Residence, the first thing he did was to meet with Wei Ada, and he attached great importance to Song Yuhang's letter, and he believed that if it was not a particularly important matter, Song Yuhang would definitely not use this letter.
Although Chiang Kai-shek was mentally prepared, he was thrilled by Song Yuhang's so-called suggestion, and the expeditionary force was able to gather the strength of a war to sweep the main force of the Japanese army in Burma in a short period of time It was absolutely unexpected for him, and the guarantee of Song Yuhang's Burma plan was to send troops to India while pressuring the British to make concessions.
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