The first team to rush into Yangon City was the mechanized chariot regiment affiliated to the Armored Brigade. In terms of speed, the light infantry chariots ran much faster than the 30-ton Sherman, not to mention the infantry running with legs.

Less than half an hour after the offensive order was issued, the vanguard of the chariot regiment appeared at the feet of many houses.

"Get out! Get out!"

The driver made the partition sound, and the co-pilot also climbed up to the machine gun position on the roof of the vehicle, holding the M2 heavy machine gun to stare forward.

"Hurry! Move quickly!"

As the rear cabin door opened, soldiers on board came out one after another.

There were nine soldiers behind each infantry fighting chariot, and they quickly lined up under the command of their respective commanders and spread out to establish a line of defense.

"Please pay attention to the left and right wings of the first row, and the third row unloading equipment, and everyone keeps alert!"

"Don't get together, don't get together! The machine gunner goes upstairs, who will send the bullets to them!"

The company commander of the infantry company who got off the car was in a hurry to command the team. At present, the Japanese have not come out to attack for the moment, and they must make arrangements before the opponent counterattacks.

"Put the mortar in the yard, no fire is allowed without my order!"

After the armored convoys arrived at the combat position, they did not immediately fight in. Instead, they unloaded the infantry with the car and launched defense on the spot, responding to the enemy's sudden attacks at any time, and waiting for friendly troops who were still on the road behind them.

Next, the more cruel street fighting may have just begun...

Unlike the life-and-death battle on the battlefield in Yangon, there is almost no Japanese army facing the frontal resistance in Irrawaddy Province.

After the general attack last month, the new army did not launch a new offensive, but was more of a driving mission. Just like the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, driving more than 10,000 Japanese defeated soldiers all the way south.

The southern part of Irrawaddy Province is basically filled with rivers crisscrossing with the great plains, with few mountainous forests. The Japanese army could not establish any effective defense lines in such places. They could only retreat southward and wanted to retreat to the river outlet and take a transport ship to leave here.

The Japanese army's original plan was to start evacuating Irrawaddy Province at the end of April and to take all troops to Yangon to strengthen the defense there.

As a result, before the naval fleet began to operate, the Yangon War had already begun. The fleet sent to the Irrawaddy Delta waited at the estuary for several days, but the retreating team arrived. Instead, they waited for the attack of British submarines.

There is no need to think about the ending. I dare not say anything else about the British pocket-class submarine. It is really a kid who can fight such a defenseless transport ship.

In one night, seven of the twelve Japanese transport ships near the sea estuary were sunk by them, and the rest ran away with their tails.

It is also a blessing that the submarine is not under fast underwater, otherwise none of the troop transport ships converted from these civilian ships would be able to escape.

In order not to make a fool of himself in front of the army, the navy deliberately concealed the news. As a result, a few days later, the first Japanese troops who arrived at the entrance to prepare to evacuate were stunned.

None of the ships waiting here were watching, but instead, there were several British submarines docked on the water at the estuary.

When the Japanese used telescopes to observe, some British sailors stood on submarines floating on the sea and looked at them, as if mocking their incompetence and weakness.

The Japanese were so angry that they wanted to pull cannons and send the British to heaven immediately, but they fled in panic and had no heavy weapons at all, so they could only stand on the shore and sigh.

The British were not idle. After seeing the traces of the Japanese army, they immediately reported the news to the Mandalay Air Force Command. Soon a large number of fighter planes appeared above the beach and bombarded the Japanese below.

In this way, most Japanese soldiers no longer had any fighting spirit. Many of them were recruits who had just been on the battlefield and had not fought several times. In addition to the chaos in logistics supplies, there were many teams with no food.

At this moment, they just wanted to escape from the enemy's blockade as soon as possible, and they could not have the desire to continue fighting.

The retreat was cut off, and it was impossible to go north and go back. The Japanese, who were forced to do nothing, could only continue to flee west. Because in the southwest, the two major rivers, Bosheng River and the Irrawaddy River, are at the mouth of the two major rivers.

Due to the buffering effect of the southern plains, the river forms a large delta basin here, with no less than a hundred alluvial islands of all sizes, and the forests of trees can also play a certain hidden role.

More and more Japanese troops were driven to the Irrawaddy estuary delta. After learning that the transport fleet was attacked, everyone's hearts fell to the bottom, and a feeling of despair arose.

As the saying goes, it is said that when the house is leaking, the Japanese army is facing not only the enemy's siege, but also the increasingly severe supply problems.

Since they broke through the encirclement of Ganjidang, they have basically lost all the supplies and equipment they should have lost. There are serious shortages of weapons and ammunition, and many people are walking forward hungry. They thought they could escape from this place by boat, but who would have thought it would be a dead end.

Not long after, the two vanguards of the 201 and 202 divisions of the New Army, who were chasing, reconnected with the Japanese army.

Originally, some Japanese devil officers tried to organize troops to set up ambush on key roads and find the right opportunity to break out, but the opponent did not give them the opportunity to fight head-on.

The new army soldiers used white phosphorus bombs, and the dense forest was filled with the wailings and screams of the Japanese. Their bodies were burned to pieces, easily shattering the team that the other party had finally assembled.

After a series of encounters over the past few days, the depressed Japanese no longer had the intention to face the enemy and soon showed a greater trend of defeat.

The troops gradually lost contact and were running their own way. The commander could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the commander.

Faced with the situation where there was no way out, the Japanese desperate Japanese could only build their own small rafts and run to the small islands in the delta to hide.

There are many local indigenous people on these small islands. They have lived here for generations and survived by fishing in the Delta Basin. Now they have been in trouble for eight lifetimes.

The Japanese who had no water and food were not concerned about anything else. After going to the island, they started burning, killing, looting, and all the houses and food of the natives were looted, and men and children were even ruthlessly killed.

The worst of them are those women. The days of escape have kept the Japanese in fear. In this desperate situation, it seems that they need to vent their animal desires.

So they captured all the indigenous women, regardless of their old friends, and rubbed them hard, and after that, they still left no way to live and buried them all alive.

For a time, an extremely cruel killing trip took place in the entire Irrawaddy Delta islands and reefs.
Chapter completed!