After weighing the pros and cons, Du Yuming finally chose to bypass Myitkyina and march towards northern Burma.

Du Yuming has Du Yuming's considerations, this consideration is like what I said before, the expeditionary force has no supplies, and there is one less bullet and artillery shell, and it will be difficult to get supplies from Myitkyina when the Japanese army occupies Myitkyina first, and even if Myitkyina is snatched from the Japanese army, it will be an empty city, so he won't even send scouts.

But objectively speaking, Du Yuming still lacks the demeanor of a general.

It would have been forgiven if he had not chosen to go to India before, when Myitkyina had not yet been occupied by the Japanese. But now, Myitkyina has been occupied by the Japanese army, and the expeditionary force has only a dead end further north, even if he thinks about the lives of his soldiers, he should choose to enter India, and the same is true with Chiang Kai-shek's orders...... This is not only a matter of not being subject to foreign military orders, Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying have also repeatedly ordered the expeditionary force to enter India, they are also Du Yuming's superiors, and their orders are also orders, and Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying were both appointed by Chiang Kai-shek personally, so entering India is not disobedient.

But Du Yuming just couldn't swallow this breath and couldn't let go of that face, so he chose a way to go to the dark.

Of course, at this time, Du Yuming did not know that it was not the Japanese army but the Chinese army that occupied Myitkyina, and it was also a well-equipped engineering regiment with a large amount of supplies and supplies.

At this time, the engineer regiment did not know that Du Yuming had made the decision to bypass Myitkyina, on the one hand, because the engineer regiment could not get in touch with the Fifth Army without a radio, and on the other hand, because Wang Mazi always remembered the telegram, thinking that the main force of the Fifth Army was on the way to Myitkyina, so he was relieved to organize defense in Myitkyina and wait for the arrival of the main force.

The Japanese were able to settle down after two more charges.

There are several reasons for this:

One is that the Japanese army marched all the way from Yangon to Myitkyrie, and by that time the logistics supply line had crossed nearly 2,000 kilometers (note: the Yangmi Railway was 1,784 kilometers long). Such a long supply line and the road is also very bad because of the combat road conditions, and the railway has been bombed by the Japanese army's own fighter planes all the way to a standstill, so the 33rd Division is also unable to follow up until now.

The other is that the Japanese army can not invest many troops in Myitkyina...... At this time, the Japanese army can be said to have occupied most of Burma. The large number of places occupied meant that the troops were scattered, and the troops were also seriously underwhelmed by the fact that they had to pursue the retreating British and Chinese troops in other directions.

More importantly, by this time the main strategic objectives of the Japanese army in the Burma direction had been achieved...... Cutting the China-Burma highway and sticking a knife in the back along the China-Burma highway was done by the time of the occupation of Lashio.

Therefore, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Burma Front, Shozo Kawabe, considered that the most important thing at present was the direction of western Yunnan in China and the direction of Imphal in India.

China's Yunnan westward direction, that is, to cooperate with the Japanese army on both sides to attack China, in order to quickly defeat the Chinese army and pull a large number of troops out of the quagmire of China.

Towards Imphal, India...... That was the next strategic goal of the Japanese army, in fact, the Japanese army had already sent a large number of Japanese plainclothes troops to India.

The situation in India is somewhat similar to that of Burma, both of which were British colonies, both oppressed and enslaved by the British, who were dissatisfied with the British. Moreover, they all have religious beliefs, and they all have independent consciousness and power. These are places that the Japanese army can take advantage of.

Obviously, the Japanese army still wanted to deceive and use the Indians in the same way as they did the Burmese, and then it would be possible to take India as smoothly as they did in Burma and march into the oil-filled Middle East to join the German army.

Of course, there was one thing that the Japanese did not expect...... Indians do not have as much national consciousness as the Burmese.

The vast majority of Indians believe in Hinduism, which was developed after the Aryans invaded India, and its essence is that the ruling class wants Indians to be willing to be enslaved and ruled, so they divide the castes and promote a kind of "obedience" mentality, which makes Indians believe that everything is arranged by God. If you suffer in this life, you will enjoy it in the next life, and do not fight, because if you fight, you may disrupt the arrangement of heaven and make yourself unable to enjoy happiness in the next life.

Under the influence of this thinking, India was also very subservient to the rule of the British. Later, he even respected white people and was proud to be able to do things for them. As a result, the resistance forces fighting for independence did not have the support of the people and did not become a climate.

Similarly, although the Japanese army was fully prepared to incite India when attacking India, it did not achieve the effect of responding to the call of the Burma and rising up one after another...... The attitude of the Indians is that you fight you, and I live my life. Whether the British or the Japanese ruled India seemed to have little to do with them.

This is one of the reasons for the disastrous defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Imphal launched in 44 years, that is, three years later...... The Japanese siege of Imphal actually collapsed under famine and epidemic, if the Indians were as "enthusiastic" as the Burmese were in favor of independence. The British and Indian divisions would not have resisted desperately in Imphal, the Indian people should also send food to the Japanese army besieging Imphal, and India should also take advantage of the situation to set off an upsurge of support for the Japanese and the British.

But none of this happened.

This fully illustrates that everything has its good side and its bad side...... The national consciousness may be good, and patriotism is also right, but sometimes this sentiment is easy to be exploited, for example, the Burmese people were sold and counted the money for the Japanese army, and India, on the contrary, although it has a more "obedient" consciousness in this direction, has thwarted the conspiracy of the Japanese army.

Of course, that's all for later.

At this time, Kawabe Shozo set his sights on Imphal, the gateway to the Burma-India border, and he hoped to take advantage of the fact that the British army had not yet gained a foothold in Imphal, just like fighting Burma and entering India.

As for that Myitkyina...... Although it would make the Japanese army very uncomfortable if it pressed northern Burma, it did not block the way for the Japanese army to kill in Yunnan, China, nor on the way to India, and the more than 3,000 Chinese troops were also so insignificant, so the strategic impact on the Japanese army was not great.

Kawabe Shozo believed that as long as the Japanese army could take western Yunnan in China and Imphal in India respectively, then Myitkyina would be surrounded by the Japanese army on a large scale, that is, cut off from India and China.

So Kawabe Shozo ordered: "Stop the attack on Myitkyina, just block them north of Myitkyina!" (To be continued.) )