The heat of May is simply more than that of Burma, just out of the horizon as if everything is going to be dried up, the kind of dry heat makes people almost irritable, Yamashita Bongbun is really annoyed by the damn weather in India, especially when the war situation is unfavorable, anxiety, worry, restlessness, and apprehension surround Yamashita Bongwen, who has lost a lot of weight.
As the commander of the newly formed Indian Dispatch Army, Yamashita Fumi, not long before that, was complacent about the difference in the terms of terms and titles between his dispatch army and the front army, and it was obvious that his rank of lieutenant general was not enough to hold the post of commander of the dispatch army, and it was obvious that the successive commanders of the China Dispatch Army and the Southern Army were all in the rank of general, and Yamashita believed that this appointment was an extremely obvious signal given to him by the base camp, and as long as he showed the corresponding achievements, then his promotion to the rank of general would be a matter of course.
Just a week ago, the troops under the command of Yamashita Bongbun still had an absolute strategic advantage, and even if there was a certain amount of losses in the Burmese remaining troops, it would not matter, because the great victory in Kolkata would cover everything, and he himself, along with the attacking forces, had left his post and left the Burmese Front, which was the main reason why he did everything in his power to prevent the base camp from immediately appointing the commander of the Burmese Front, as the commander of the sending army in charge, Of course, we cannot allow the existence of a separate military campaign unit with different affiliations and no control next to us, and it is Yamashita Fengfu who has single-handedly caused the chaotic situation in which the remaining troops in Myanmar have no unified command.
Due to Yamashita Fengfumi's selfishness and Tanaka Shinichi's intention to support the Japanese army's base camp for the sake of his personal future, when there was a huge crisis in the strategic ownership, command, and coordination of the 100,000 troops left behind in Burma, the Chinese Expeditionary Force had already attacked Mandalay, and its main force left in Burma had already fallen into the encirclement and interception of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and it was too late to think about temporarily appointing a unified commander.
Due to the rapid collapse of the Burmese remaining forces, the timetable for the course of the Battle of Yamashita did not follow his expectations, and Shinichi Tanaka and Hiroshi Takeuchi, who disappeared after the Battle of Naba, seemed to be steaming in the world.
Yamashita had already seen that there had been a great reversal in the tide of the war, and that the vanguard of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Chinese paratroopers holding Imphal immediately took the initiative to attack, which showed that its main force must not be far from Imphal, while the intelligence department repeatedly reported that the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was hundreds of kilometers away from Imphal The squadron remaining in Burma was a soldier, and the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force must have wanted to make a surprise attack on the Imperial Army troops surrounding Calcutta.
However, in recent days, news has frequently come from the liaison station of the intelligence organs in Kunming that following the entry of the main forces of the 20th Group Army and the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army into Burma, the numbers of many main forces of the Chinese army, such as the new Fifth Army and the 100th Army, have appeared near Kunming, and the five newly formed main combat divisions of the Youth Army newly formed by the Chongqing Government have also arrived in Kunming for adaptive training.
The strategic intention of the Chongqing government to transfer troops and gather a large number of materials to the west and continue to enter Burma is already obvious, and only one part of Myanmar is still in the hands of the imperial army, and the rest have all been lost, and the Chinese's attempt is obviously not as simple as Burma, and the Chinese expeditionary force Song Yuhang's headquarters went straight to India despite the fatigue of months of fierce fighting, and a large number of squadrons followed behind and slowly advanced.
There is not much chance of winning with Song Yuhang's mechanical troops in the vast plains of India, not to mention that even if he defeats Song Yuhang's Chinese Expeditionary Force, he will be greatly injured, and how to deal with the Chinese Twentieth Army, the Eleventh Army and many other troops that follow closely behind, plus the Chinese Expeditionary Force garrison in India, which will counterattack at any time in the city of Calcutta.
Yamashita Bongwenjue himself had fallen into an elaborate and enormous trap when he attacked Calcutta.
With the momentum of the narrow successive victories, the Chinese Expeditionary Force Song Yuhang's elite was shaken.
Obviously not a rational response.
And the Chinese Expeditionary Force stationed in India, which is entrenched in the eastern part of Kolkata, is very impregnable.
Frequent sorties of small-scale armored forces are even more unguardable.
If it persists and cannot get to lower Kolkata.
Once the main force of the Chinese expeditionary force attacked the city of Kolkata through Imphal, India sent troops.
The troops under his command will fall into a dangerous situation on two fronts, and the lack of strength will become his greatest weakness Caught in a two-sided battle with the Chinese expeditionary force.
Yamashita Fengwen believes that Song Yuhang, just like his opponent, will not give up this rare opportunity.
What worries Yamashita even more is that after the Chinese Expeditionary Force, a steady stream of elite troops have been sent to Chongqing, Burma.
Since the hump route has been cut off, the point of departure.
It was still not possible to exhaust the material reserves of the Chinese expeditionary force, and the capture of Calcutta would lose its original strategic significance.
Continuing to hold out will only result in heavy losses to the existing forces and local forces.
Standing in front of the map, Yamashita looked at India's long coastline and vast hinterland, and a new battle plan suddenly came to mind.
Swiftly command troops to maneuver into the heart of India to take a city with a port.
It is convenient for the navy to quickly resupply the Indian dispatch force by sea, which can effectively preserve its strength.
It can also reach the Indian campaign, which is partly the main destination.
Advance to the heart of India, find port cities, and complete the task of continuing to supply the troops.
In addition, the main forces were sent to advance in the direction of the Middle East to make contact with the German army.
Yoshio Fukuda, chief of staff of the Dispatch Army, and Hiroshi Kurokawa, deputy chief of staff, had reservations about the operational change plan of the headquarters that the commander of the Dispatch Army was going to submit, and the vast majority of the officers and men at the grassroots level could not accept giving up half of the city of Calcutta that they had fought so hard to capture.
India is Indian, India's extremely inflammatory slogan, coupled with Baus's own influence, it can be said that most of the results of the Japanese Indian dispatch army were directly related to Baus's huge influence, and the opposition to abandon Calcutta, which was almost within reach, made Yamashita Fumimi very distressed.
For this big man who was valued by his ally Germany, Yamashita Fengwen was very distressed, and it was originally a taboo for politicians to participate in military command, but now Yamashita Fengwen has no way to deal with Baus.
Liang Chao, who commanded the Fourth Light Division, and Lu Long, who was acting in concert, gasped almost simultaneously after receiving Song Yuhang's telegram, and used one division as the main force to attack the Japanese Calcutta headquarters Although Song Yuhang lined up the armored troops that were released every day to participate in the counterattack and cooperate with the operation, in the face of more than 200,000 Japanese troops and the Indian puppet army, which had already reached hundreds of thousands, the 4th Light Division attacked and amassed troops under the city of Calcutta, and the main force of the Indian dispatch army did not have the potential to moth out the fire.
An order is an order, and although Liang and Lu Long were very worried, they still faithfully fulfilled this seemingly life-or-death order by virtue of their military nature.
Unlike Liang Chao and Lu Long, who were full of sorrow, Chang Tianfang, who received the order to attack, was extremely excited, Zheng Dongguo, Sun Liren, Liao Yaoxiang and others expressed great concern about Song Yuhang's adventurous plan.
Song Yuhang, who is like a monstrous man in the middle of the day, even if he is a celebrity in front of the chairman, Zheng Dongguo has to hesitate again and again, Zheng Dongguo is different from a rising star general like Song Yuhang, he is really promoted step by step with his qualifications, if it is not compared with Song Yuhang, it can be regarded as a smooth progress, but in the rocket-like rise speed of Song Yuhang, who is not qualified, Sun Liren, Liao Yaoxiang and others, who were originally commanders of elite troop divisions, have very different attitudes, although everyone does not say it, But it is natural to have some resentment in his heart, but Zheng Dongguo has already made a choice.
Before 1942, the squadron had not been able to give a single Japanese division a annihilating blow to any Japanese division or regiment in the frontal battlefield for many years, let alone capture any of the Japanese army flags, and the number of Japanese troops annihilated by the troops under the command of Song Yuhang alone even exceeded the total number of several battles in several theaters.
For such a young and powerful young general, whether it is jealousy or envy, Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang have a feeling of incomprehension in their hearts, it turns out that the Chinese Garrison in India and the Expeditionary Force do not belong to the same system, this feeling is not very strong, but this feeling has become irrepressible after the Chinese Garrison in India has been reorganized into the Third Mechanized Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
Now Sun Liren, Liao Yaoxiang and others have quite a lot of complaints about this very risky battle plan, and all of them gathered in the headquarters that night to wait for Zheng Dongguo, after all, Zheng Dongguo is the army commander personally appointed by the chairman of the committee, and if there is a mistake, the military seat can also bear the thunder anger above.
Suddenly, the door of the headquarters war room was pushed open with a bang, and an emaciated figure appeared at the door: