In fact, both China and Japan understand very well that war is a kind of risk. Like financial speculation, the greater the risk, the greater the reward. In the Burma battle, both China and Japan were taking risks, and both sides played exactly the same chess.

, just as both the enemy and ourselves in ancient times read Sun Tzu's Art of War and used the Thirty-Six Stratagems, and both sides were tit-for-tat, then the competition was about the overall combat power of the army, the quality of individual soldiers and the overall national strength of the country. In this regard, China is obviously not

Japan's rivals.

The siege of Tonggu by four Japanese divisions also affected Gao Fei's nerves. The Hero Division was his starting point. Although most of the officers and soldiers were transferred to the other six divisions, the Hero Division was still the first-class direct main force of the Youth Army.

Huang Junjie naturally also knows that he has a heavy responsibility and is attracting

While retaining and constantly consuming the effective strength of the Japanese army, we must reduce the casualties of our own troops to a minimum. In fact, the two were absolutely contradictory before. We must kill the enemy and reduce casualties. This requires everyone from the commander to the staff and grassroots.

Officers and soldiers have high tactical literacy.

Huang Junjie regularly reports the battle situation in Tonggu to Gao Fei every day, so that Gao Fei can timely command and grasp the combat progress of Tonggu frontier and master the overall control. It is obvious that the Japanese army is also trying its best to give the Chinese Expeditionary Force an annihilating blow, because

Myanmar's special geographical shape is suitable for the Japanese army to exert its ground and air firepower advantages, especially in Chen Na

The leading troops of the Chinese and American Volunteer Air Force in Germany retreated, and the follow-up main forces had not yet entered the gap. They took advantage of the narrow terrain of Myanmar and the inconvenience of the large corps' circuitous operations to inflict heavy losses on Gao Fei's headquarters. If the Chinese Expeditionary Force was placed on the domestic battlefield in China,

, if a large-scale detour, division and encirclement are carried out, it may be difficult to imagine annihilating such a force.

Annihilating the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and cutting off the last international transportation line for aid to China was a huge victory for Japan's entire strategy. After the Southern Army swept across Southeast Asia, Myanmar became the last piece of Southeast Asia, including French Indochina.

The land that has not yet been included in the occupied territory of the Japanese Empire, the Southern Army is bound to also

Facing the strongest enemy opponent, Juichi Terauchi seemed to have a desperate desire to complete the last goal. As Japan's wartime base, it also had such a plan. Before cooperating with the German army in launching the Spring Festival Offensive in the Far East, it would solve Southeast Asia and combine it with the main naval force.

In a battle between fleets and the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the Imperial Navy still has a very good chance of winning.

The Japanese Combined Fleet used ten battleships to fight against the seven battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and used forty-nine battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and thirty-five ocean-going destroyers to fight against the twenty-six and twenty-eight U.S. Pacific Fleets.

The Japanese Imperial Fleet had an absolute advantage over the three U.S. Pacific Fleet ships, especially the ten aircraft carriers. However, the Japanese also knew very well that the U.S.'s huge industrial strength could only maintain this advantage for about thirteen months. After that, Japan would

You will fall into endless consumption and be unable to extricate yourself.

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However, both the Japanese army and navy seemed confident before this. Because they had restrained too many troops in the northern advance and the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army had been on the defensive in the Pacific battlefield. Occupying Southeast Asia was already the largest task that Japan's military forces could bear.

As far as the limit is concerned, as an overall strategy, Japan's wartime headquarters still preferred a mainland policy to launch attacks on the Far East. After all, Japan is an island and maritime country. Its desire and main purpose of launching the war is to become a continental country. The Pacific Islands are of great significance.

But the vast Far East.

The Japanese army's overall strategic attack on Tonggu appeared to be very well-planned. They gradually deployed troops to test firepower. They even used the latest white phosphorus incendiary bombs and gasoline arson bombs in a large number of high-intensity bombings, combined with anti-personnel grenades from ground field heavy artillery.

Heavy shelling was carried out on the old town of Tonggu. Shojiro Iida was not an ignorant person. He determined that

Knowing that the complex situation in the old city must be an area where the Chinese army concentrated resistance, they used incendiary bombs to burn the old city clean, and used anti-personnel grenades to kill a large number of the Chinese defenders' effective forces, and gave the Chinese defenders a certain amount of blow and damage.

After that, chariot troops were sent to cover the infantry attack on the old city, using the old city as a breakthrough point with the ancient city.

Iida Shojiro took the old town as a matter of course as a breakthrough point to capture Tonggu, while Huang Junjie took the new town as the core of the defense, so the Japanese army's indiscriminate bombing of the old town was obviously a waste of emotion.

Because according to the overall assessment of the ancient city before the war, the old city lacked solid buildings, and the weapon fire range was greatly disturbed. If the Japanese army entered the city and sent a small team into the old city to carry out guerrillas, very good results could be achieved.

Yes, but with the main force to defend and hold on

In other words, once they are intensively bombed and shelled by the Japanese army, the casualties of the troops will be very large. Moreover, if reinforcements are carried out from the new city to the old city, the troops will be exposed to a certain extent to the long-range suppressive firepower of the Japanese army. In this way,

To fully defend the old city is to lose more than you gain.

Therefore, Huang Junjie decided to stick to the front line of the old clock tower in the old city and fully mine the abandoned old city. The British stockpiled a large number of mines in Myanmar, including trip mines, pressure mines, loose mines, instant mines, etc.

A lot of it, Huang Junjie will collect from the British warehouse

All the mines at the airport were buried at the airport and the old city. The mines at the airport had already given the 112nd Infantry Regiment of the 55th Division of the Japanese Army a huge surprise. Although the mines currently buried in the old city were destroyed by Japanese shelling and bombing

Most of the mines have been destroyed, but a considerable part of the mines have been preserved.

From a tactical point of view, the Japanese 18th Division and the 56th Division formed a pincer attack on the front-line position of the Bell Tower in the old city. Huang Junjie's purpose was to use troops one after another in a narrow position to consume the Japanese army's effective combat power and its front line.

To this end, Mutaguchi Lian also conducted combat coordination with Masao Watanabe. Due to the limited battlefield capacity, each division used a main infantry regiment to cooperate with the field artillery regiment to attack and eliminate the remaining Chinese military flows in the old city.

The soldiers are scattered and brave.

Both Mutaguchi Renya and Watanabe Masao felt it was incredible to break through the defenses of the ancient copper city so quickly. Although the troops entering the city were constantly hitting mines, after all, the main forces of the two infantry regiments had already penetrated deeply.
Chapter completed!