At the same time, the news that Myitkyina was broken was also the 58th Division Zhang Lingfu, and Master Zhang was naturally even more dumbfounded, he had defended Songshan and promoted the geographical advantage to the top of all the winning factors, so he naturally would not have thought that Chu Tingchang would capture Myitkyina so quickly.

In Zhang's eyes, Chu Tingchang has always been vain and exaggerated, fighting by aerial firepower, artillery cover, tanks and trucks, in short, American weapons, this so-called famous general has long been disgusted, what he especially dislikes is the vulgar newspaper invented a contemporary Kong Ming and other titles.

To a certain extent, Chu Tingchang returned to attack Myitkyina, and Zhang Lingfu was still a little proud, he felt that it was only a really cruel mountain attack that would make this Kong Ming plant. He didn't doubt that Myitkyina would be breached, but that was a month or two later, when the Japanese were almost starving to death. Zhang Lingfu prides himself on knowing the soldiers, and he knows the geographical advantages, that kind of place cannot be touched, and he dares to pat his chest to fight, which shows that Chu Tingchang is ignorant at all.

He planned to take advantage of the two months that Chu Tingchang had been hitting nails in Myitkyina to gather American reinforcements, and then attack Mandalay south. The 58th Division has essentially broken away from the expeditionary force sequence of Wang Yaowu and Chen Cheng, and has become Chongqing's most reliable force in northern Burma, and he is confident that it will be given priority to get equipment, and will soon have a new 7th Army or a new 8th Army number. While waiting for the 5th Army to hit the nail, his communications corps heard a large number of radio calls from Chu Ting's headquarters on the radio (the 58th Division was not far from Myitkyina), and found that something was wrong and immediately sent a copy to him. The communications soldier watched Division Commander Zhang finish reading the telegram, and suddenly hammered the table seven or eight times.

The battle of Myitkyina was still going on, and Tao Mingzhang's artillery fire suppressed the frontal enemy's fire, and then the Sherman tank company, which joined the battle, relied on its relatively thick armor to eliminate the enemy's small-caliber anti-aircraft guns one by one. The assault force quickly passed through a small area of clearance*, followed by sappers who braved enemy artillery fire to clear mines. By this time, all 4 bulldozers had already been destroyed by the enemy.

The enemy in Myitkyina was rapidly mobilizing, and both the baggage men and the engineer and artillery men were all concentrated and ready to counterattack, but Tao Mingzhang's artillery extended to knock down their assembly area. From the vantage point, he could see every move in the city with a telescope. The enemy who hit could not raise his head on his surface positions.

Takeuchi Kuan's preparation was not sufficient, especially after his main wing was annihilated by Chu Tingchang on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, he still decided to stick to Myitkyina, in fact, the troops at hand were insufficient, and the troops were evenly distributed in deployment, and there was no focus and reserves, and now it was impossible to dispatch.

The map of the enemy's deployment sent by the people in Myitkyina made Tao Mingzhang prepare for a long time, he had already measured the artillery firing range, and he knew very well where all kinds of ballistic firepower could cover and where it could not be covered.

At this time, the Myitkyina prisoner of war camp also took advantage of the fact that most of the guards were transferred to the front, and with the cooperation of the people, they took the opportunity to riot. The artillery fire commanded by Xu Chong supported the operation very precisely. The prisoners of war and the people of the city converged and seized the construction site around the railway station, which created new problems for Takeuchi, who was short of troops.

Zhou Youfu's 202nd Division was only now in action, and his mechanized troops were ordered to quickly pass through the pass, storm into the city, occupy the enemy's unfinished fortified area near the railway station, divide the enemy, and join forces with the prisoners of war. So that the enemy cannot take care of each other.

In the case that the crossfire on the enemy's commanding heights has not been completely cleared, Zhou Youfu personally led his Stewart tank to quickly pass through the fire net, and the enemy's main anti-tank means have been eliminated, but there are still some auxiliary means. Zhou Youfu's tank rushed through the passage at top speed, so that the *and* thrown down from the mountain were completely inaccurate.

By the afternoon, most of Myitkyina had been captured, and the 202nd Division had captured the repair shop, ammunition depot and field hospital. The enemy's defensive firing range on all sides was outward, and it was impossible to turn around and go inward, so it could only gather forces and blindly counterattack.

The Chinese army had already learned roughly about the location of Takeuchi's headquarters through the rescued prisoners of war, just a block away, because the prisoners of war were involved in the construction of the headquarters and knew the enemy's entire system well, and they knew the whole system better than many Japanese troops on the periphery.

The infantry began to fight house by house in that direction. The enemy in the city was weak in combat, and the troops, under the cover of tanks, quickly cleared the enemy troops with blasters and *, and surrounded the Japanese headquarters from three sides. During the battle, a large number of Japanese non-combatants were found to have participated in the battle, which showed that there were few troops.

After finding the entrance, Zhou Youfu didn't try to find a shouter who could speak Japanese to persuade him to surrender, it was completely redundant, he asked the demoman to blow up the entrance, and then directly burned everyone inside with a flamethrow. He was expecting to take another lieutenant general's head, but when the troops rushed in, all the bodies were charred, and the lieutenant general was not found.

In fact, 30 minutes before Zhou Youfu decided to burn down the underground headquarters, Takeuchi had already sent a telegram to Kimura in Mandalay to apologize for his crimes, and sent a telegram to the troops in the outer positions: The defense has lost its meaning, please break through the siege, and then commit suicide by seppuku. His staff team could not escape, and there were not a few who committed suicide by swallowing guns.

After nightfall, the Japanese troops on the periphery, which had lost their defensive significance, began to come out of their fortified positions and fled into the nearby primeval forest, and the Chinese troops deliberately did not surround them, leaving a direction to the west for them to escape, so as not to use the strong defense to resist stubbornly and increase casualties.

After most of the enemy had fled, 202 hours began to take over their positions. These men had little food with them, and they would surely die if they fled into the Savage Mountains. If they wanted to escape to Mandalay, they had to avoid roads, climb over mountains, cross several roaring rivers, and return to Mandalay, where they were almost dead.

The lack of food that Takeuchi had been worried about did not happen, and the battle only lasted one day, but Zhou Youfu still looted a lot of food from his warehouse. However, before the Japanese escaped, they destroyed all the heavy weapons.

Liao Yaoxiang, who arrived slowly from the bottom of Hukang Valley, immediately got the mission of intercepting the fleeing enemy in the forest from Stilwell. The remnants of the 55th Division who escaped from Myitkyina are several thousand people, and they will create some trouble for Liao Yaoxiang in the next few months. No more than 2,000 of them eventually escaped.

Tojo was at the Prime Minister's Office in Nagatacho, Tokyo, when he received news of the destruction of the 55th Division. He had just attended a banquet and was touted by Chen Gongbo, a representative of Wang's puppet government. When I returned to the Prime Minister's Office, I was drunk, and just as I wanted to fall asleep, I received such a depressing news. By the time he saw it, he was almost awake from his wine.

Hyotaro Kimura is his cronies, but the war is really bad. There has been a lot of talk in the Ministry of War and the General Staff that Kimura should go to the Army University as president or the Kwantung Army in Manchuria as commander instead of fighting the most difficult Chu Tingchang in the Allied forces.

Tojo just felt that this kind of discussion was nothing more than hitting himself through Kimura, so he naturally fell on deaf ears, but he didn't expect such a situation to happen again, and if you calculate carefully, before northern Burma, the army had never been annihilated by a division, even in Taierzhuang or Nomenkan. Counting the 1st Division, in fact, it is only missing. But in this strange and ghostly place of Burma, the army has been filled with too many elite troops, and the four main divisions (the 18th, 31st, 33rd, and 55th divisions) have been destroyed here. The 2nd Division recovered from India with a loss of 10,000 men.

He shuddered and took out his cigarette, waited for the secretary to light it, then took a few deep puffs, and suddenly remembered Makino's confession a few days ago.

In the imaginary story of this madman, he came to this era on a ship to save Japan...... If memory serves, the reason why the ship, called the Kasuga Maru, could not show this ship was because the ship sank more than 100 kilometers north of Taiwan, and the reason why it sank was because there was also a Chinese submarine nearby at that time, causing ...... In short, it's a very complicated story, but it can be told on its own. He believes that a Chinese submarine has also come to this era, to counteract their efforts to save Japan.

In any case, this crazy story turned out to be self-consistent, and there was even a very difficult formula to solve, and the professor of Imperial University thought that the formula itself made sense. And the testimony of Kage Satsuaki, who sided with Makino, mentioned that the counteroffensive in northern Burma was instigated by a Chinese officer named Chu Tingchang, and the origin of this person is also very strange. He has already checked this person through Wang Pseudo and Mei Organ, but he has not found it, and he is currently going to Chongqing to check the details of this person through Kawashima Yoshiko's system, and it is estimated that he will not find it. He confirmed that this Chu Ting was probably one of the traversers.

"Is this story true?" A thought flashed through Tojo's mind.

"In any case, we must first protect Myanmar and the Greater East Asia Conference, establish a Japanese-led Asian pattern, and then slowly investigate."

He immediately suppressed his speculation, believing that the immediate priority would be the Greater East Asia Conference a week later, the second major event since he launched the Pacific War, with the aim of bringing Asian countries into Japan's industrial system.

Tojo knew that many people criticized him for not understanding the overall war, but he firmly believed that only by taking a long-term view was Japan, and that Japan must make full use of the raw materials and manpower production areas of these puppet countries and use these markets to grow its industrial machinery. Therefore, this meeting was very important, and he decided not to interrogate Makino for the third time for the time being, but to continue to care about the Greater East Asia Conference on New Year's Day.

In Konoe Fumihiro's private residence, Kagesa Zhenaki brought his full plan, and he didn't take notes, so he dictated it all. The whole plan cannot be said to be seamless, but it has been quite perfect, and the Japanese communists who have been released have already begun to move, and through the liaison officers and radio stations arranged by him, they have received the task and begun to prepare. Shoji Saito, who was the leader, even began to learn Burmese, and he looked full of energy. When the time came, it was up to the man to carry a briefcase with * in it, enter the chamber, and place it at Bhamo's feet.

He finished the whole plan, and the guard silently pinched out his cigarette.

"One thing has changed." Konoe calmly interrupted Kagesa Yoshiaki.

"Yesterday, after the Chinese representative came, he promised to give us priority for next year's rice production, so Tojo decided to let Chairman Wang Jingwei sit next to him."