It took more than half an hour for Japanese reinforcements to arrive, but they arrived too late, and the Chinese troops were already in battle at the Rangoon line.

After a break of ten minutes, the Japanese army launched an attack on Rangoon, after all, Rangoon was too important, it was an important transshipment point for supplies collected from Thailand and supplies brought from the sea, and if Rangoon was lost, Thailand and Burma would be cut off from it and become two parts that could not support each other.

Therefore, even if the Japanese army knew that it would be difficult to take Rangoon, they still had to give it a try.

It should be said that the Japanese army can also use the tactics of penetrating the wall to deal with the defense of the Chinese army, but the sad thing is that the Japanese tanks are all small tanks weighing several tons, not to mention that this kind of tank cannot hit the wall, and the armor may be deformed after a few more hits.

So the Japanese could only attack along the streets...... Needless to say, the Japanese tank was overturned by one shot just after it emerged, and the thin-skinned tank of the Japanese army could not withstand the bombardment of the 92 cannon, and it was blown to pieces with only one shot, leaving only a little residue.

As for the Japanese infantry that rushed up, they were even more vulnerable under the combined resistance of American machine guns and rifles.

In the end, the Japanese really found a way to attack...... The Japanese method is somewhat similar to the tactics used by the Chinese army to hit the wall during the siege of the city, except that instead of tanks, they use hammers to hit the wall.

It should be said that this method is quite good, if it is difficult to attack directly along the street, then attack in the building, which is similar to the Chinese army's tank ramming the wall tactics, the difference is only a little slower.

However, the speed was a little slower, which brought great difficulties to the Japanese army's method...... The devils knocked on the wall inside the building, so the soldiers blew up the wall outside the building, and the cannon and mortar combined to "roar" at the buildings on both sides of the street, so the building soon collapsed in the screams of the devils.

The Japanese attacked several times and suffered heavy casualties, and finally had to admit the fact that Rangoon belonged to the Chinese army.

The news of the loss of Rangoon soon reached the ears of Mutaguchi Ryoya.

Mutaguchi Lian couldn't help but be taken aback. He thought that the Japanese army would win the race between Imphal and Yangon, but he did not expect the Chinese army to move so quickly...... In other words, the Second Division was too ineffective, and perhaps, there was also a problem with the command of the three generals of the riverside.

From this point, it can also be seen that Mutaguchi Ryoya is arrogant, Kawabe Shozo is his immediate boss, but he is suspicious of Kawabe Shozo's command.

The loss of Rangoon now means that Imphal's already scarce supplies will be more difficult, and it can even be said that the attack on Imphal has lost its strategic significance to some extent...... One of the strategic directions of the Japanese attack on Imphal was to lay down Ledo and cut off the supply lines of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

But now. The capture of the coastal city of Rangoon by the Chinese army meant that the Chinese army could be supplied from the sea, and even if the Japanese army took Ledo, it would not be able to surround the Chinese expeditionary force or even China.

Therefore, at this time, the more conservative consideration is to stop the so-called operation of Ukraine and retreat to the Irrawaddy River, otherwise the Japanese army is likely to collapse due to supply problems after attacking Imphal for a long time...... In the Battle of Imphal in history, the Japanese army suffered a crushing defeat because of supply problems.

However, Mutaguchi was reluctant to abandon the Battle of Imphal, because the Battle of Imphal had another strategic goal: to use Imphal as a base to attack India after taking Imphal. The other is because Mutaguchi also hopes to use the victory of the "Black Plan" as a ladder for his promotion to general.

Therefore, no matter how the staff officers persuaded him, Mutaguchi Lian insisted on the "Black Plan" and continued to attack Imphal...... If you knew that the battle to attack Imphal was almost insisted on by Mutaguchi Ryoya alone, the British troops stationed in Imphal were afraid that they would curse this ghost beast to death.

But in a way. Mutaguchi Ryoya is also correct in this insistence...... Historically, the 15th Army did not succeed in taking Imphal, but it was only one step short, and although the current 15th Army was also short of supplies, it was much more relaxed because of the large amount of supplies captured at the beginning of the campaign.

This gave the Japanese more time.

Mutaguchi Ryoya also looked at the map in a daze. Although the Japanese army had already reached the door of Imphal's house, they almost raised their feet and stepped in.

But the air power of the American and British forces kept them from lifting their feet...... Although the Japanese concentrated almost all the fighters in Burma, there was still a considerable gap compared with the fighters of the British and American forces.

So, whenever the Japanese infantry launched an attack on Imphal. There are always as many coalition bombers and fighters as there are flies overhead, which makes the tanks of the 15th Army a waste at all...... The armor of the Japanese tanks could not withstand the strafing of the fighters at all, so under the air superiority of the coalition forces, the tanks were no different from iron coffins.

"How do you take Imphal?" Mutaguchi Lian couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

At this time, a staff officer a few meters away said to himself: "It's time for those Indian National Army to go up!" I don't know what it would be like to let them Indians fight Indians! ”

Of course. This staff officer was just complaining about how the Indian National Army did not use the battlefield.

"Oh!" Hearing this, Mutaguchi Lian couldn't help but be stunned, and then nodded.

The Indian National Army, numbering more than 7,000 men, was prepared for Bos to establish a puppet regime in India at Imphal.

The predecessor of this army, Mutaguchi Lian, was also a part of the 100,000 British and Indian troops who were forced to land in Singapore with 50,000 Japanese troops, but because their combat effectiveness was not good, they were never arranged to fight the British army on the battlefield.

If it was really arranged on the battlefield, this unit was afraid that it would be frightened by the planes in the sky before it could rush up.

However, it seems that they can't be blamed for this, most of this force is Indian, although some of the officers have been replaced by Japanese, but the Indian soldiers and Japanese officers can almost be said to be people of two worlds, because the Japanese officers draw their command knives and wave forward to give the order to attack, while the Indian soldiers often flee with their heads in their hands.

If it weren't for the fact that this army was prepared to establish the puppet regime in India, the Japanese officers would have been so angry that they would have gone on a killing spree.

"That's right!" Mutaguchi Lian also said to himself: "Why don't you send this army up?" Maybe they played an unexpected role! (To be continued.) )