Chapter 54 Information
Zhang Chi sat on the shell box in distress and was stunned......
He had always thought that the Burma campaign was a brutal Japanese army by the Chinese, British and Burmese forces, but now he knew ...... This battle was actually fought by the Chinese Expeditionary Force against the Japanese, British, and Burmese coalition forces.
The Burmese thought that the Japanese army had come to liberate Burma, so they helped the Japanese army from top to bottom.
Out of consideration for their national interests, the British not only threw a large amount of strategic materials to the Japanese, but also constantly deceived and interfered with the expeditionary force in terms of strategy and intelligence.
If there is any disadvantage, it has to be the United States...... Although Stilwell, the commander of the light pole on the US side, said that his influence is limited, he will continue to threaten the equipment and materials supported by the United States, and consider the United States on the battlefield in Burma from the standpoint of the United States at the expense of the lives of the Chinese people.
All of this adds up to this terrible battle on the battlefield in Burma.
The Burmese did not lose anything, they succeeded in driving out the British colonizer and ushering in the Japanese army, the "liberator", although in only half a year, they preferred the British to come back to rule...... But it's all their own choice.
The British did not lose anything, and the British army did suffer more than 10,000 casualties and lost a lot of equipment, but they all brought it on themselves, they did not expect that the Japanese would not only chase them behind, but also intersperse the path in front of them to surround them, so there was this kind of "the agency was too clever and mistook Qingqing's life".
The Americans also had nothing to lose, and if anything, it was Stilwell's saliva.
The only one that suffered heavy losses was China...... China not only sacrificed more than 50,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force on the battlefield in Burma, but also allowed the Japanese army to enter western Yunnan all the way, causing millions of Yunnan people to be ravaged by the Japanese army for a long time.
What can I do? What can I change? Zhang Chi asked himself over and over again.
"Platoon commander!" The townsfolk stepped forward and comforted: "It's just some ammunition, and it will be solved at the summit!" ”
Zhang Chi just smiled and didn't say anything.
How would a fellow villager know that he was worried not only about ammunition and gasoline, but about the entire Burma campaign and the entire expeditionary force.
Let's talk about the Battle of Pingmanna in front of you......
So far, the Battle of Pingmanna has been fairly well organized, and on the Western Front there are the British Army's Anglo-Burmese First Division, the Anglo-Indian Seventeenth Division, and an Armored Seventh Brigade, with 40,000 or 50,000 troops and a large amount of modern equipment, facing only one of the 33rd Divisions of the Japanese Army.
The middle line is the Fifth Army, the main force of the expeditionary force, at this time, Xiao Yaoxiang is leading the new 22nd Division to adopt an alternate movement defense, fighting and retreating along the Swa River south of Pingmanna, the purpose of which is to buy time for the main force of the expeditionary force to assemble Pingmanna, and second, to consume the ammunition and combat effectiveness of the Japanese 55th Division.
On the eastern front was Gan Lichu's Sixth Army, which was to hold back the Japanese 56th Division along the Moltke Highway all the way north. As mentioned earlier, the Moltke Highway was destroyed all the way by the 200th Division that had withdrawn, so the Japanese 56th Division was advancing very slowly.
On the surface, the Battle of Pinmanna does seem to be doable:
It is not a problem for 40,000 or 50,000 well-equipped British troops on the Western Front to hold back a division of Japanese troops;
The 56th Division of the Japanese Army on the Eastern Front basically couldn't move, and there was no need to think about it in a short time;
The Fifth Army, located on the central line, had more than 40,000 men, and this was an army with tanks, heavy artillery and other sophisticated equipment, so it was not a matter of blocking the Japanese army, but it was intended to eat an exhausted 55th division of the Japanese army.
But the harsh reality of history is:
The British troops on the Western Front fled without a fight, and once again did not notify the squadron of the first to flee without a fight, not only did they flee without a fight, but also blocked the news, so that the squadron learned a few days later that the Western Front had long been occupied by the Japanese army.
The Fifth Army on the central front faced not only the 55th Division of the Japanese Army, but also the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, which was newly reinforced, and the Japanese army used poison gas bombs, so the Fifth Army could not gnaw at all.
The 56th Division of the Japanese Army on the Eastern Front was not as slow as imagined, on the contrary, with the help of the Burmese people, they forcibly marched more than 400 kilometers in five days without supplies at all, and the 6th Army of Gan Lichu was also on the verge of collapse in the face of the Japanese army, so the entire battlefield situation was completely opposite to what was originally envisaged...... Originally, it was intended to encircle and eat a division of the Japanese army's central line, but the result was a major collapse on the eastern and western fronts, and the Fifth Army, the main force of the expeditionary force, was surrounded by the Japanese army.
But what about Zhang Chi? Could it be that he went to Du Yuming to report that it would be like this in the future? That one will definitely be regarded as a psychopath by Du Yuming!
Just when Zhang Chi was distressed, Ding Lun's moaning caught his attention.
Although Ding Lun's injuries have undergone some simple treatment, the 200th Division lacks the necessary medicines, coupled with the hot climate in Myanmar, Ding Lun's wounds have become inflamed and leaking pus.
"Let's go!" Zhang Chi said to Ding Lun: "Remember not to join the volunteer army again, the Chinese are not your enemies!" ”
Zhang Chi didn't mean to say this, he didn't want Ding Lun to die here, and at the same time, he didn't want Ding Lun to drag down the troops.
Ding Lun smiled bitterly: "Even if I know that the Chinese are not our enemies, where can I go?" ”
Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned, what Ding Lun said was really right, at this time, Myanmar could be said to be full of the eyes of the volunteers, and Ding Lun was a traitor who betrayed the volunteers, so he followed the squadron and might have a way to live, as soon as he left the squadron...... I'm afraid I'm going to die soon.
Unless, Ding Lun can make the Volunteers believe in him again.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chi's eyes couldn't help but light up, so he pretended to say to Ding Lun: "That's fine, when our big army comes, maybe there will be some anti-inflammatory drugs!" ”
Ding Lun nodded helplessly, he didn't seem to have any other choice.
"Alas!" Then Zhang Chi let out a long sigh and said to the soldiers: "Just now...... I talked to the British for a while, and I asked them how many tanks they had on the Western Front, and guess what? They say that the British 7th Panzer Division has long since withdrawn to Ringanqiang! ”
"it!" The countrymen couldn't help but scold: "Didn't the British say that they were going to defend the Western Front?" The tanks all fled first, and they still said to defend?! ”
"Do you still believe that the British fart?" The hooligan replied disdainfully: "It's not enough to be deceived once in Tongguna? I have to be deceived a few times to remember it for a long time! ”
"That's it!" Xiao Zhejiang echoed: "This Englishman will be reliable, and the sow will also go up the tree!" ”
The warriors scolded me word by word, not noticing that Ding Lun's eyes were rolling on the side.
You must know that this seems to be a very simple and casual sentence, but it contains two quite valuable military information: one is that the British army on the Western Front has no determination to fight with the squadron at all, and the other is that a large number of British tanks and equipment are gathered in Ringanqiang.
Of course, Ding Lun didn't realize that this information was deliberately revealed to him by Zhang Chi.