The Chinese Expeditionary Force, which had almost run out of fuel in Burma, formed a defensive formation around the town of Mija 80 kilometers away, and it was reassuring to know that all tanks and armored vehicles were parked on the perimeter as fixed fire points before the last drop of fuel was consumed.
Song Yuhang, who was already exhausted, was worried about whether his extremely risky plan could succeed, and he didn't know that there were already people in Calcutta, India, who hated him to the bone, eager to tear his bones and pick his skin, and Mountbatten had hated Song Yuhang to the crack of his bones.
How did Song Yuhang know that the battle report that should have been handed over to Lord Mountbatten, the commander of the British army, was still lying in Chang Tianfang's pocket, and that it had always been Chang Tianfang's long-cherished wish to lead a truly fully equipped armored division to win or defeat the Japanese army, and that the battle would have been settled, and he was so excited that he had forgotten to his grandmother's house that the battle report that should have been handed over to Mountbatten 2 hours ago.
After the onslaught of the Chinese Expeditionary Force from the eastern city of Calcutta, Yamashita still had a glimmer of hope that if the fierce offensive of the Chinese Expeditionary Force did not last long, then he could conclude that this was a strategic deception that had been planned for a long time.
The Chinese soldiers who fought back quickly broke through the three lines of defense of the Japanese army under the cover of tanks, and the headquarters of the new 22nd Division and the new 38th Division, which crossed the attack, cut the 33rd Division of the Japanese defense of the north building of Xicheng into two halves.
At this moment, the main force of the Japanese army was outside the city of Calcutta, and there were only the 2nd Division, the 15th Division, the 33rd Division, and the first field artillery regiment in the city.
The door of the war room was pushed open by the senior combat staff officer of the army, Datakano Taira, whose face was full of gunsmoke mixed with sweat, saw that everyone in the war room was still unusually calm and calm, so he said anxiously in a voice that was very incoherent with a crying voice: "Guards, immediately cover the retreat of the commanders, the tanks of the people of China are only one street away from here."
The words of Otakano Ping like a thunderbolt on a sunny day made Yamashita Fumimi seem to be floating in a dream It took more than two months and 30,000 casualties for the imperial army to capture half of the city of Calcutta by successfully countering the Anglo-Indian forces, but the Chinese expeditionary force had already reached its headquarters in the west of Calcutta less than half an hour after the counterattack began Yamashita had the urge to shoot all the incompetent officials in the line In a fierce street battle with the Japanese army.
Chinese officers and soldiers fought bravely to the front.
Before the war, Commander Zheng Dongguo and Zheng had already notified the location of the battle to the platoon level.
The city was supported by hundreds of tanks and artillery.
Outside the city, the main forces of the first and second mechanized armies led by Deputy Commander Song Yuhang came to the aid of the enemy and served the country in the starry night The 2nd Division of the Japanese Army deserves to be the most tenacious unit among its old standing divisions.
Even if it was interspersed with multiple ways and multiple lines.
Under the calm command of Kiyozaburo Okazaki.
The 2nd Division was scattered, and the Japanese army regrouped again and again.
It was like a ball that could jump off the ground with a hard blow, and a Chinese soldier had just strafed and knocked down several Japanese soldiers.
Before he could find time to change the magazine, he was stabbed to the ground by the Japanese soldiers who swarmed to the ground.
Life burns in an instant, and life and death are being staged everywhere in the streets and alleys of Kolkata, and life for life is being exchanged.
Blood for blood Shouting to kill a Ben.
Kill two to earn a place Chinese soldiers have killed red eyes.
In the face of the Japanese firepower point blocking, it is often a burst of fierce rushes, and the struggle is extremely tragic.
Chinese soldiers also suffered heavy casualties.
Embarrassed to withdraw from the west city of Kolkata, Yamashita Fengwen looked back unwillingly at the city where he had placed all his hopes.
Just capture it.
It would be possible to achieve the strategic settlement of the Chinese battlefield on the imperial continent and join forces with the German allies in the Middle East.
Lost the initiative in the ocean.
But what a glory it would be to win the mainland's strategic success Yamashita didn't expect that his carefully planned battle plan would fall short when he was only one step away from success "Your Excellency, Commander.
Please reinforce the troops in the interior of the city," Tanaka Nobuo begged with tears to let Yamashita Fumi's heart smack, and the power of the armored forces of the Shina Expeditionary Force was not only Yamashita Fumi.
Among the many division commanders in the field, many of them can be said to have lingering palpitations.
Yamashita was also hesitant to send a telegram from the 54th Division, which was in charge of blocking the attack on the periphery, and the Chinese army, equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, had broken through the blocking position of the division Fourth, the lightly armed attack became the straw that crushed the last trace of hesitation in Yamashita Fengwen's psychology Yamashita Fengfumi, who had made up his mind, had already dispatched a cadre of the army, and the senior officers and division commanders knew that it was absolutely not suitable for a decisive battle with the main force of the China Expeditionary Force that was rushing in at this moment.
"Order the troops to go into tactics Yamashita gave this order, which he had been brewing for a long time, and his falcon-like gaze had become unusually gray.
Yamashita Fengwen's retreat surprised Song Yuhang and a group of senior officers of the expeditionary force, and Song Yuhang was completely relieved after receiving Zheng Dongguo's confirmation and the continuous and accurate report of the pursuing force organized by Chang Tian Retreat.
At dinner, Song Yuhang ordered Xiao Guodong, who came in a hurry, to organize a dinner as much as possible, and Xiao Guodong did his best, and finally arranged the dinner task of the last night of Deputy Commander Song's position in the position of Deputy Commander at 1 o'clock that night.
Where did the ordinary officers and men entangle themselves with a few hardships and hardships, and where did they know that the commanders were using the fate of the nation state to make an earth-shattering gamble, and now that the bet has been won, Chairman Chiang, who originally wanted to wait for the great victories in Myitkyina and Naba, and after the war stabilized, and made a major reward to Song Yuhang, could no longer contain his excitement, and Song Yuhang's rank of lieutenant general and deputy commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had been transformed into the commander of the general of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
Yamashita Fengfumi's strategic retreat plan can be said to have been carried out almost according to Song Yuhang's vision, but there is one thing that greatly surprised Song Yuhang's expectations, Rommel who fought against Montgomery in the North African theater won several partial victories in succession, and the German army, which had accumulated small victories into big victories, took advantage of the situation to counterattack.
It can be said that the great success of Rommel in North Africa was closely related to the naval submarine sabotage war carried out by the German Navy in the ground, and on May 29, 1944, the German Navy attacked the British code name "Pillar" transport ship group in the waters of the Fina Islands in the Mediterranean.
It is not difficult to see the importance of this transport group to the British from the name given by the British, and the escort fleet of 22 warships, including the light escort aircraft carrier Eagle, the medium aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, and the battleship Barham, escorted the "pillar" transport group.
Due to the leakage of intelligence, at 18:211 on the evening of May 29, the German wolf pack guided the submarine U73 boat to appear in the sunset Hawk escort aircraft carrier, under the siege of the German 1U submarine group, the battle until 20:22, the British "Pillar" transport group to belong to the Eagle escort aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal medium aircraft carrier, the battleship Balham, the cruiser Living Statue and other 37 ships were sunk.
Mishima was shocked by the collapse of the British "Pillar" carriers, and Churchill fell silent when he learned the news, and a few hours later, Churchill drafted a telegram to Roosevelt, in which Churchill called the major loss the darkest day in Britain's history since the outbreak of World War II, and the enormous destructive power of evil made it impossible for justice to be seen.
Although Churchill did not explain the loss of his "column" transport group, Roosevelt was as clear as a mirror in his heart, in order to resist the German North African Corps, the United States provided the weapons and equipment of two British heavy divisions, and these tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery that had just left the factory were sent to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea by German submarines.
From the beginning of January 1944 to the present, a total of 297 transport ships and a total of 1.98 million tons of transports in the British Sea and the Mediterranean Sea have been sunk, and Rommel naturally knew what this huge loss meant for the British troops on the front Although Rommel's physical health is much worse than before, night sweats, fear of light, nervous breakdown, and rheumatism are tormenting him, Rommel still insists on commanding the Afrika Korps to frequently test the Cairo defense line held by the British army, and Rommel's persistence comes from his dedication to Cairo, Egypt In the intervening years, the southward advance of the Japanese Indian troops coincided with the great victories of the German army in North Africa, and for a time, the defeat of the Japanese no longer seemed to be a failure, and the successive defeats of the British at the strategic level made the great victories of the Chinese expeditionary force in Naba, Imphal, and Calcutta seem to be downplayed a lot.
Since February 7, 1942, when the German Navy and the Japanese Navy converged in Madagascar, the local pro-German French Vichy government allowed the German army to establish ocean-going submarines and air force supply bases, and the Japanese submarine force sent three ocean-going submarines, I-129, I-1 and I-1, to cooperate with the German army to strike at the British Far East route.
In order to ensure the safety of the Far East route, the British launched an attack operation codenamed "Ironclad", which used all the firepower and transportation power of the British Far East Fleet, and the French Vichy government in Madagascar quickly gave up resistance, and this risky attack also showed Britain's determination to protect its Far East interests
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