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Chapter 1601: Allied Counterattack (5)

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    In fact, Chongqing is extremely reluctant to send the expeditionary force out of Yunnan to fight in Myanmar. The reason is that the situation in China is not optimistic, and has even become very bad. There are really no troops to be transferred to Yunnan.

    As early as the Casablanca Conference from January 14 to 24, 1943, the US Army Engineer and Technical Forces had begun to build a road eastward from the town of Ledo in Assam, India, in December 1942. By 1943  It was completed at the end of February, with a total length of about 70 kilometers, from which it can reach the Myanmar border.

    The Chinese New 1st Army and a regiment of the US Army launched an attack on the enemy's 18th Division along this newly built road from north to east in Myanmar.  At the same time, U.S. troops building roads and burying oil pipelines also moved forward.

    Based on the smooth progress of the U.S. military in the Pacific in the spring of 1944, U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill predicted that by the summer of 1945, the U.S. military would land on Luzon Island in the Philippines, Taiwan and the southeastern coast of China to fight against Japan. Therefore, currently  That is, various bases should be built in China to support and respond to the landing US troops.

    To establish these bases, reserve a certain amount of supplies, and transport a considerable number of US troops, the first priority is to quickly build the Ledo Highway, an international transportation line.

    To this end, China is required to redeploy a considerable amount of troops to attack westward from Yunnan, use the east-west combat method to eliminate the enemy, and control the highway and the areas along it.

    At this time, the Japanese army in mainland China was preparing to open up the mainland's transportation lines, attempting to capture the southern section of the Ping-Han Railway from Zhengzhou to Xinyang, the Guangdong-Han Railway from Yueyang to Guangzhou via Hengyang, Shaoguan, and the Guangdong-Han Railway from Hengyang to Guilin, Liuzhou to Nanning.  , railway and road transportation at Zhennanguan.

    Therefore, China needs to organize a considerable number of troops to conduct defensive operations.  Under such circumstances, the Nationalist Government believed that it would be difficult to mobilize too many troops to western Yunnan.

    At this time, Roosevelt repeatedly praised the bravery and military exploits of China's New 1st Army in fighting in northern Burma, but on the other hand, he insisted on requiring Chinese troops to attack from Yunnan, especially in mid-March when three Japanese divisions of Burma attacked Imphal.  After being restrained, the United States made such requests for unilateral consideration more frequently, and these were mainly conveyed through General Stilwell.

    Because new situations have emerged on the Chinese battlefield, the Nationalist Government ultimately rejected the U.S. request.

    But when Roosevelt studied this issue, he still insisted on his original position.  To this end, Marshall actually took coercive measures against the allies who were jointly fighting against Japan¡ªplanning to reduce the number of air shipments of aid supplies to China and preparing to cancel loans to Chinese airlines.

    Stilwell¡¯s approach was even more powerful. He planned to transfer 700 tons of air transportation from China¡¯s Yunnan Army to General Chennault¡¯s 14th Air Force of the U.S. Air Force in China.

    Although General Chennault opposed this and He also opposed spreading too many troops to Yunnan, it would not help the overall situation.

    Under the last resort, Chief of Staff He Yingqin discussed with senior military personnel and negotiated with the United States, agreeing to strengthen Yunnan's troops and cross the Nu River into northern Myanmar to participate in the battle to open the Ledo Highway.

    When the Japanese army launched a campaign to open up the mainland's communication lines in mid-April, China dispatched two group armies and 16 main divisions to fight in Yunnan under extremely difficult circumstances, resulting in Henan, Hunan, northern Guangdong, southern Gansu, and Guangxi.  , the main battlefield in southern Guizhou reduced mobile troops and suffered greater losses.

    During this period, Stilwell also designated Wang Yaowu's 74th Army, which was to be used mobilely in the 3rd, 9th, 6th, and 7th theaters, and also transferred it to the secret bases in Yunnan and northern Myanmar, and promised to airdrop supplies.  However, because this army serves as China's strategic reserve, the United States has not agreed even though it has proposed it many times.

    Wei Lihuang's expeditionary force arrived in Yunnan. Its mission was to annihilate the enemy's 56th Division in front of them, capture Lameng, Longling, Tengchong, Mangshi, and Nankan, join forces with the New 1st Army in northern Myanmar, and finally break through Lei.  Many roads.

    The Yunnan Expeditionary Force began to use the 11th Group Army for defense and the 20th Group Army for offense.  On the night of May 11, they suddenly advanced to the west of the Nujiang River and attacked the enemy's 56th Division and its reinforced 2nd Division in Tengchong, Lameng, Songshan, Longling, and Pingjia. This lasted for more than 8 months.  During the battle, he joined forces with General Sun Liren's New 1st Army, an expeditionary force that had returned from India via northern Myanmar, at Mangyou, and finally opened the international highway from Ledo to Yunnan, China.

    Before that, until the end of October 1943, the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army fought against the enemy's 18th Division in very difficult jungle areas for 15 months, paying a heavy price and sacrifice.

    For the independence and dignity of the country, and for the survival and liberation of the nation, many officers and soldiers sacrificed their precious lives and rested in the primitive mountains and forests on both sides of the Ledo Highway in a foreign country.

    By early August 1944, the battlefield in northern MyanmarFundamental changes have taken place. When the secret security situation in the important town in northern Myanmar was tense, the enemy's 33rd Army transferred an infantry brigade from the 56th Division, and the 18th Infantry Group there was commanded by the commander of the 56th Infantry Regiment, Major General Genzo Minamizu.  The 114th Regiment's defensive secret.

    The main force of the 30th Division, the 14th Division and the 22nd Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, commanded by Stilwell, captured the Secret Army on August 4 after more than two months of fighting.  The 114th Remaining Enemy Regiment, consisting of about 800 people, was led by its commander, Colonel Maruyama Fusayasu, and fled to Yamamo. Minakami Genzo committed suicide that day.

    After the Chinese Expeditionary Force captured the secret base, the air transport distance from India to Kunming, China was shortened, and there was no need to fly over the Himalayas.

    When the Wei Lihuang Division was encircling and annihilating the enemy's 56th Division, it was expected that the enemy in northern Myanmar would come for reinforcements, so it always controlled a considerable number of mobile troops while attacking Tengchong, Lameng, Songshan and other places.

    From mid-May to the end of August, due to the stubborn resistance of the enemy, in addition to the capture of Lameng on June 4, fierce battles were held for major enemy strongholds such as Tengchong, Songshan, and Longling.

    After the commander of the enemy 148th Regiment in Tengchong, Colonel Yasumi Kurashige, was killed by the 20th Group Army of General Huo Kuizhang of the Chinese Expeditionary Force on August 13, all the commanders (associates) of this regiment were casualties. In the end, the 28-year-old Captain Masato Ohta,  Command this regiment with only 1,600 people left to continue fighting.

    On August 20, when Masato Ota reported the battle situation to Matsuyama Yuzo's division headquarters via telegram, he mentioned: "Ten days after the death of the commander of the Tibetan Army, the situation suddenly became serious. I am deeply uneasy about this humiliation and incompetence.  The current personnel with one eye, one hand, and one foot also volunteer to participate in the battle and swear to annihilate the invading enemy forces"

    According to Masato Ohta¡¯s telegram, the 56th Division¡¯s aircraft flew to Tengchong and airdropped grenades and medicine that the division urgently needed.

    At the same time, Major Kanemitsu Keijiro, captain of the enemy's 113th Regiment, which was besieged in Matsuyama, sent a telegram with the following content to his division on August 23: "Since the 19th, due to the enemy's fierce attack, the garrison has been defending the daring.  However, most of the current troops are disabled, most of them have only one hand and one foot, but they still fight with all their strength to ensure the dilapidated position If the worst happens, Kinoshita Masami will send the artillery team  The lieutenant returns to the division to report the situation."

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    In order to restore the Japanese occupation in the area west of the Nujiang River and rescue the besieged troops in Tengchong, Songshan, and Longling, the 33rd Army of Lieutenant General Honda Masato used the first part of the 18th Division and the first part of the 2nd Division to defend Nankan.  On the night of August 26, the main force of the 2nd Division entered the southeastern area of ??Mangshi in a covert operation.

    In order to facilitate the command of this battle, the 33rd Army moved its command post from Xinwei, north of Lashio, Myanmar, to Mangshi on August 30. That night, it ordered the 2nd Division and the 56th Division to attack Longling in parallel.  and Nujiang, while rescuing the besieged troops in Songshan, Pingjia, and Tengchong.

    The 2nd Division began its attack on September 3, and reached the highlands southeast of Longling on the 5th, and made contact with the troops in the city; the 56th Division reached the northwest of Longling.

    At this time, the top commander of the Japanese army in Burma had changed. Lieutenant General Shozo Kawabe, the former commander of the Burmese Front, was dismissed on August 30 due to the failure of the Imphal operation in eastern India in the summer, and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Hyoutaro Kimura.  .

    Kimura was originally the head of the Ordnance Headquarters of the Japanese Army Ministry. When he received his new appointment, the Japanese Chief of Staff, General Yoshijiro Umezu, gave him a briefing on future combat issues in Myanmar.

    Umezu Meijiro asked Kimura to maintain the high morale of the troops, establish command for the reconstructed troops, and grasp the actual situation and dynamics of the troops.

    ¡°At the same time, according to the situation in Myanmar, it is extremely difficult to strategically secure the key areas along the southern and western coasts and cut off China¡¯s land transportation through northern Myanmar to India.

    Regarding Myanmar¡¯s future combat policy, it is currently being carefully studied.  However, key areas must be secured to support the western flank of the Southern Army.  As for the operation to block land transportation from China to India in northern Myanmar, flexible guidelines should be adopted.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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