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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 1217 The Army Arrives at Mandalay

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    A scorched earth shelling area was full of desolation. The staggering figures of the two soldiers looked particularly lonely and stubborn. Tang Qiuli handed the binoculars to the mountain tiger next to him and said: "Huzi, send someone to go there immediately."  The two soldiers came back, but our troops did not attack. They should be Zheng Yong's artillery observers. Their situation is very dangerous. "

    Shan Hu looked through the binoculars and whispered a few instructions to a squad leader behind him. A group of soldiers from the guard brigade quickly drove out. Tang Qiuli said to Liu Xinlan: "Order, Meng Mi's troops on the front line will attack immediately."  "With the exception of two regiments left to clean up the battlefield, all the troops of each corps reoccupied Mogok and pushed into the Japanese defense line of Libao Grand Canyon. All troops were on standby, waiting for the next order from the division commander."

    Turning around, he said to Shan Hu: "Come on, Huzi, let's go to the front and see the two soldiers carrying the stretcher." More than twenty guards surrounded Tang Qiuli and Shan Hu as they walked out of the headquarters.  , Tang Qiuli saw Liu Xinlan following her closely, frowned slightly, and said to Liu Xinlan: "Staff Liu, please don't go, stay at the division headquarters!"

    Liu Xinlan wanted to say something, but she didn't say it. She just saluted with a military salute and turned around to go back. Tang Qiuli didn't notice that the girl's little face was slightly red. Just now, Liu Xinlan looked at Tang Qiuli's eyes.  Seeing the deep concern, it was a natural expression. Maybe Tang Qiuli didn't even feel it himself, but it was just a subconscious act, or in other words, it was an instinctive love.

    Directly south of Mengmi, a hill that has not been attacked by artillery fire looks particularly lush on the scorched battlefield. On the plain at the foot of the mountain are tanks, accompanied by a large number of infantry.  ishu. The iron stream is rolling, and the soldiers are like a tide, stepping on the land after the baptism of artillery fire.  Head towards Mogok.  Anyone who sees such a scene will get excited.

    To be honest, several corps commanders.  The division commander's order to leave two regiments to clean the battlefield was considered unnecessary.  Judging from the battlefield situation after the shelling, it would be a miracle to be able to pick out a complete Sanba Gaier.  Who doesn't know Zheng Yong's ruthlessness?  Hundreds of thousands of artillery shells were dropped, and seeing alive Japanese soldiers was not the same as finding Bao'er?

    Tang Qiuli put his hands behind his back and narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at this spectacular scene in front of him, the wind in the early autumn afternoon in central Myanmar.  He blew his mottled hair and lifted a corner of his military windbreaker from time to time.  The wings are spread out and ready to fly. Anyone with such an iron stream in their hands will have the ambition to dominate the world, even Tang Qiuli is no exception.

    More than a dozen soldiers from the guard brigade were carrying a stretcher. Different from their neat military uniforms, the two faces were blackened by gunpowder smoke. The soldiers in ragged uniforms were holding on to one end of the stretcher tightly, as if they were afraid of the most precious things.  If you let go of something, you will lose it. Tang Qiuli quickly walked down the mountain and reached the stretcher.

    On the stretcher was a soldier of unknown age, covered in blood and in a coma. Tang Qiuli asked softly: "Which unit are you from? Who is injured?" Two ordinary soldiers, obviously not seen.  Tang Qiuli, however, the four golden general stars on his shoulder straps and his imposing aura showed that he was an unusual person.

    Facing the questions, he seemed a little at a loss. The captain of the guard squad said in a low voice: "This is our division commander, what are you asking about?" The two ordinary soldiers trembled, and the older one quickly stood at attention and saluted, "  Reporting to the division commander, Wang Manjiang, a member of the second observation team of the ** Division's third artillery group, salutes you. The injured is our team leader, Staff Sergeant Meng Xiaozhu."

    Tang Qiuli raised his head in surprise and said, "Who was it, Meng Xiaozhu, who first discovered the Japanese attacking troops and passed the information to the artillery command headquarters? How was he injured?~~

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    Update~~Huzi, hurry up, call the military doctor immediately," the two soldiers choked and told the whole story. When they heard that Meng Xiaozhu, risking artillery fire and sacrifice at any time, discovered the Japanese artillery position, and then was  Tang Qiuli's eyes were wet after being injured by one of his own shells.

    Just such an ordinary soldier, his vigilance and spirit of sacrifice provided first-hand intelligence for this unprecedented bombardment. All the victories of the Japanese division were due to such soldiers who silently made sacrifices.  The generals commanding thousands of troops and thousands of artillery are majestic. They are the dazzling stars on this war stage, and all the halo is focused on them.

    Who has thought deeply that the halo on the general is lit up by hundreds of thousands of ordinary soldiers like Meng Xiaozhu with their own blood and even their lives. This is the cornerstone of the invincibility of the ** division, Tang Qiu  Li asked the military doctor in a low voice, "How is the condition of the wounded?"

    The military doctor replied with a serious face: "Report to the division commander, the situation is very bad, becauseThe bomb exploded at close range, and the shrapnel cut deeply into the body, causing excessive bleeding. If surgery is not performed immediately, life may be in danger." "Send to the field hospital in Myitkyina immediately." "Division commander, our frontline field hospital does not have  I'm afraid the corresponding equipment cannot perform such a complicated surgery," the military doctor replied sadly.

    Tang Qiuli glanced at Meng Xiaozhu, who was pale and unconscious, and said to Chen Feng, the director of the Communications Department: "Immediately transfer my special plane to the Myitkyina temporary airport and send Meng Xiaozhu to Dingbian General Hospital. At the same time, with my  We sent a telegram to Dingbian General Hospital in name, and we must save this soldier at any cost. He is our hero."

    For an ordinary soldier, the matter of using the special plane of the No. 1 commander of the ** Division quickly spread among all the troops on the front line. Tang Qiuli did this without any intention of showing off, but this matter had serious consequences for the front line.  The influence of hundreds of thousands of soldiers exceeded his estimate. Military morale and morale were unprecedentedly concentrated and high.

    Compared with the high-spirited momentum of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops pushing into the Libao Grand Canyon, the headquarters of the Japanese Southeast Asian Expeditionary Force in Mandalay City was filled with gloom and mist. The earth-shattering artillery fire in Mogok  In the battle, hundreds of thousands of Imperial Army soldiers were left dead, which put great psychological pressure on Ito Yanzaburo.

    The Southeast Asia Expeditionary Force that had just been replenished had not yet regained its strength. In the Battle of Mogok, it suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties. Although Ito had been mentally prepared for this, the defeat was so heavy, so fast, and with no surviving soldiers.  His prediction, and what made Ito even more heartbroken, was that despite such heavy casualties, there was no loss to the ** division troops.

    In other words, the hundreds of thousands of Imperial Army soldiers in his six divisions were engulfed by several hours of artillery fire before they saw the infantry of the ** Division. Ito didn't know how to explain such a heavy defeat to the base camp.  , and he had no reason to explain that if there were such heavy casualties in a normal offensive and defensive battle or a positional battle, Ito would be able to accept it, and the base camp would also understand.

    The Southeast Asia Expeditionary Force was already at a disadvantage when facing the main force of the First Division. The base camp also knew that the Burma battle plan was a desperate effort. In this way, the lives of hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers were lost. Ito could not explain why.  It was my fault in command or my unclear judgment of the battlefield situation that led to such disastrous consequences. What would the base camp think and what would His Majesty the Emperor think?

    All of this made Ito confused and at a loss as to what to do. He had received a report from the commander of the Libao Grand Canyon defense line. The main force of the Japanese division was sent out to reoccupy Mogok and force into Libao. Based on the situation, he could decide at any time  It is possible to launch an attack on the Imperial Army's Libo defense line. With the bombardment in the morning that could flatten several mountains, the Libo Grand Canyon defense line, which the Japanese commander regarded as a natural hazard, was no longer so safe.

    This is not to mention the greatest pressure on Ito, which makes him feel terrifying. With the defense line of the Grand Canyon, the current strength of the imperial army is of course powerless to attack. However, relying on the dangerous terrain for defense, Tang Qiuli can break through this  Even if a line of defense is broken, a few teeth will be broken. Without paying the price of hundreds of thousands of people, don't even think about taking a step beyond the line of defense.

    At this moment, Ito hoped that Tang Qiuli's main force would immediately attack the defense line of Libao Grand Canyon. He also planned to fight to the death with the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli right here. In the end, the whole dispatched army was shattered and he died in the wilderness.  His fate was also due to the fact that he shed every last drop of his blood for His Majesty the Emperor's plan for the Burma Campaign, which was worthy of the reputation of a general of the Japanese Empire.

    But Tang Qiuli didn't follow his thoughts. Just now, a telegram sent by the staff made Ito's desperate thoughts come to nothing. The biggest sorrow of being a soldier is that if you want to fight hard, your opponent won't give you a chance.  I wanted to hold my breath and hit it, but there was air on the other side.

    The telegram read, "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, on the morning of October 9th, the ** Division marched eastwards and laid siege to Taunggyi. The battle lasted until 4 pm that day, when all our Taunggyi Imperial Army guards were in pieces, and Taunggyi fell to the enemy.  Before committing suicide by caesarean section, I sent a telegram to the Commander-in-Chief, asking you to quickly dispatch heavy troops to recapture Taunggyi and Loigu. Otherwise, the Southeast Asian Expeditionary Force of the Empire of Japan will be caught in the front and rear attacks of the ** Division troops.  ¡±

    This telegram was the last telegram sent by Colonel Nakano, the commander of the Japanese army's Taunggyi garrison, before his caesarean section. Don't forget that Nakano, who was already dead, said that Ito knew better than anyone else that Taunggyi and Leigu had been lost and that the dispatch  The road for the army to retreat southward to Yangon has been cut off. What is waiting for me, except being surrounded and fighting to the last man? Is there any other way out?

    At the same time, Tang Qiuli was also looking at the telegram sent by Feng Jiwu, "Master pointed out that our Eastern Front Group has captured Taunggyi and Leigu, in fact cutting off the Japanese army's southward retreat. Please advise on the next step.  direction," Tang Qiuli said to Liu Xinlan with a calm smile on his lips: "Record, the Eastern Front Combat Group will immediately attack from the east.??Mandalay, make a posture to capture the place and wait for the next order from the division commander.  "

    (To be continued)
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