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    Chapter 339: Allied Forces Retake Burma (1)

    Bundo, five legions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force surrounded Lieutenant General Miyazaki's remaining soldiers.  The desperate Lieutenant General Miyazaki had no intention of breaking through again, chose a secluded corner, and committed seppuku.  The remaining soldiers were wiped out by the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

    The Japanese army in Monywa was defeated by the British 14th Army and the British Army, a total of four armies. With the cooperation of tanks, Monywa was successfully captured.

    By early October 1943, when the rainy season had just ended, the Allied forces had achieved a decisive victory on the western front in Burma.  At this point, in the entire Myanmar battlefield, only a few strongholds in the east were still under Japanese control.

    On the eastern front, after Yue Hanping occupied Ren'an Qiang, he implemented a tight siege on Ma Gui's defenders.  After receiving the news of a complete victory on the Western Front, Yue Hanping breathed a long sigh of relief, and he could finally start the war with confidence.  As a result, the 71st Army in Mandalay was quickly mobilized to join the front-line operations in Magway.  Yue Hanping had four whole armies in his hands, and he was preparing to launch a final attack on Ma Gui.

    Yue Hanping¡¯s combat report was reported to Stilwell, and General Stilwell broke out in a cold sweat, "This Yue Hanping, what is it that an army of 120,000 people wants to attack the Japanese defenders with nearly 40,000 people? You are kidding."

    General Stilwell immediately called back, not to launch a general offensive against the Japanese troops on the eastern front for the time being. After the Allied forces on the western front were transferred eastward, at least six armies could be concentrated to encircle and annihilate the Magui defenders.

    Yue Hanping called Stilwell back again. In the telegram, Yue Hanping analyzed the strength and combat effectiveness of the Japanese army in detail. At present, the Japanese army in Burma is in an extremely unfavorable situation in terms of morale and war situation.  Once the Japanese base camp decides to increase its troops in Myanmar, the morale of the Japanese army will be high after receiving strong reinforcements, and the situation in Myanmar will be in an unfavorable situation.

    Therefore, Yue Hanping advocated that he should concentrate the forces of the four armies to carry out counterattacks on the eastern front. The First and Second Group Armies of the Chinese Expeditionary Force could end their rest and recuperation in advance. With the help of the US military, one army could be quickly airlifted to Magui in advance, and the rest of the troops could be transported by car.  The march rushed to the Magui line.

    Yue Hanping emphasized in the telegram that he has an armored corps. In terms of artillery, soldier combat effectiveness, and logistical supplies, the Chinese Army now far surpasses the Japanese army.  I am confident that with the four armies in my hand, I can completely annihilate the Magui defenders.  Even if the Japanese defenders cannot be completely annihilated, they can at least drag the Japanese troops to Beili and Yangon to buy time for subsequent reinforcements to arrive.

    General Stilwell still had great trust in Yue Hanping's ability. Looking at the long telegram, General Stilwell fell into deep thought and puffed on his pipe.  Finally, he put away his pipe and called back to Yue Hanping: "I agree with Yue Hanping's battle plan. I immediately dispatched transport planes from the 10th and 14th U.S. Air Forces to airlift the New First Army to Magui first. All subsequent troops took cars and marched all the way.  Magui.¡±

    While Stilwell and Yue Hanping exchanged telegrams frequently, the Japanese base camp was in an indecisive situation. Giving up Burma would mean cutting off an arm of the Japanese army in Southeast Asia. Although the Japanese army was in trouble in the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese base camp was in these places.  The fortifications on the island are being overhauled and they are preparing to launch an island offensive and defensive battle with the US military.

    If Burma is abandoned, the Japanese army will retreat to Thailand and Vietnam, and the port of Yangon in Myanmar will fall into the hands of the Allies. The waters along the Philippines and Indonesia will be shared with the Allies. The Allies can rely on their naval numerical superiority to suppress the Japanese naval power in Southeast Asia.  .

    Until now, the Japanese base camp was unwilling to admit that the Japanese army's combat effectiveness could no longer be compared with that of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the senior generals were blindly confident in the Japanese army's fighting will. The base camp believed that the Burmese Front Army could hold southeastern Myanmar.  To this end, the Japanese army base camp issued strategic guidance, requiring the Japanese army in Myanmar to overhaul fortifications, strictly guard every city and every stronghold, and resolutely not allow retreat.

    General Kenkichi Ueda received the combat guidance from the base camp and was dumbfounded. As the direct commander of the Myanmar battlefield, the general will have a deep understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and British troops.  He wisely admitted that the Japanese army was not on the same level as the Allies in terms of weapons and equipment, soldiers' combat qualities, and logistics supplies.  The most fatal thing is that the Japanese army has lost air control over Myanmar.

    The base camp turned a deaf ear to General Ueda's request, and instead insisted on him sticking to every city.  Doesn't this push the Burmese front army to a dead end?

    The general invested heavily in the defense of Magway. After occupying Magway, the Japanese army renovated the city wall of Magway and built an outer city outside the original city wall of Magway, all built with huge stones.  become.  The inner and outer city walls are 14 meters high and 8 meters wide. There are stacked walls every 3 meters. The stacked walls are 4 meters wide and can be used by soldiers to avoid bullets.

    A watchtower is set up every 50 meters on the city wall. There are three heavy machine guns in the watchtower, plus an infantry cannon.  The distance between the outer city and the inner city is 20 meters. The outer city gate is designed as an urn city after imitating the ancient Chinese city wall (that is, the outer city has two gates. The first gate and the second gate are not in a straight line. Entering the first gate  The facades are city walls, like a large urn. It may not be easy to explainIt¡¯s accurate enough. Friends who are interested can take a look at Pingyao Ancient City).

    20 miles outside the city, a bunker fortification group was built based on the contiguous hills. In front of the bunker group were outpost trenches and anti-tank trenches. Behind the bunker was a reinforced concrete fortification defense system. Many anti-tank gun positions were designed in the fortifications, which became the basis of Magway city defense.  core position.

    Within the city, the Japanese army renovated a large number of existing solid houses. In some important areas, they even demolished private houses and built some tall reinforced concrete houses to facilitate control of main streets and street intersections.  The main road even has corridor fortifications built to connect it with the houses on both sides.  Throughout the city, light and dark firepower points are distributed at multiple levels, covering intersections, and sandbag fortifications are intensively built on the streets.

    Magway is an important strategic location for the Burmese front army. It has hoarded a large amount of food and ammunition, which are stored according to the standard of being able to defend for 8 months.  Even so, General Ueda issued a wartime control order, and all rations for the soldiers were distributed according to the minimum standards.  The purpose is to last as long as possible.

    Yue Hanping set the attack time as October 25, and the entire army was gearing up and ready to launch a general attack at any time.

    On the 25th, at 5 o'clock in the morning, there was still a touch of darkness in the sky of Myanmar, and thunderous gunfire suddenly sounded.  More than 300 artillery pieces and more than 100 tank guns were divided into three major groups and aimed at the Japanese positions.

    In an instant, the fire burst out, and the shells were like locusts, drawing graceful arcs, dragging white smoke, and accurately hitting the Japanese positions.  The ground shook constantly, and the whistling shells whimpered sharply, as if they were wailing for the Japanese soldiers.

    In the forward attack position, Chinese soldiers hid in the attack tunnel, squatting on the ground wearing steel helmets, with two balls of cotton tightly stuffed in their ears.  The warriors seemed to be sitting in cradle, trembling up and down with the shaking of the earth.

    On the opposite side of the Japanese position, patches of flames and smoke covered the ground. You could clearly see that the Japanese barbed wire was blown into a twisted shape, and the broken wires, gravel, and even the stumps of Japanese soldiers were blown away by the blast of the shells.  Flying.

    The fortifications on the ground shook like cracked turtle shells, constantly cracking and collapsing.  The trenches were almost filled up by the mud and dust that had been rolled up. Smoke columns from the explosions rose up, and the mud and dust that had not yet fallen were rolled up.

    The thundering sound of artillery woke up all the Japanese soldiers from their sleep. The Japanese troops at the front entered the artillery hole in panic. The dense artillery shells could tear everything exposed on the position into pieces.

    The 70-minute shelling was over. It seemed as if seven years had passed since the Japanese soldiers were swaying in the shell-proof hole until their bodies were about to fall apart.  The sound of artillery had just extended, and the Japanese soldiers at the front quickly got out of the anti-gun holes and entered the trenches.

    The soil in the position was blown soft, and when you step on it, it sinks deeply, and the instep is completely submerged in the dust.  In less than ten minutes, the Chinese army's artillery suddenly covered the position again.

    This time it was rapid fire, and dense and ferocious artillery fire suddenly poured over the sky. The Japanese soldiers on the position had no time to escape, and the fire and smoke swallowed up the bodies of many Japanese soldiers.

    The Japanese soldiers who reacted quickly immediately turned around and ran towards the artillery hole.

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