According to Commander Dai's order, Luo Yuesong followed Sasaki's regiment to the Tonggu battlefield and promptly reported the specific location of Sasaki's regiment to Commander Dai.
Faced with such a large regiment, faced with the extremely humiliated regiment of the 113th Regiment, Luo Yuesong only reconnoitred all the way this time and did not choose various small-scale harassment operations. You know, an angry regiment leader is like a
A bison that is just eating grass but has been pushed to the edge of a cliff. Even if it is attacked by a fierce lion, the bison will fight to the death with red eyes, not to mention that Luo Yuesong's reconnaissance team is just a prairie wolf. Once it is attacked, the bison will fight to the death.
It made Sasaki anxious. If Sasaki used his entire team to lay a huge net, even if the jungle was dense, the ravines were crisscrossed, and the rivers were endless, it would be impossible to escape.
Just a few dozen miles away from Tonggu, Luo Yuesong learned from Commander Dai about the battle situation that Yuesong had already foreseen, but desperately did not want to become a reality.
Lashio, the material and personnel distribution center for the Chinese Expeditionary Force, was suddenly attacked by a Japanese light infantry regiment. A large amount of combat readiness supplies were taken away by the Japanese army. More importantly, this strategic location is also the most important channel for the entire Chinese Expeditionary Force to enter and exit the country. Yunnan
The Myanmar Highway was also completely cut off from this moment.
When we were only a dozen miles away from Tonggu, we received even worse news from Commander Dai. The British and Burmese troops had retreated across the board to British India. Neither the 6th Army nor the 66th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had yet formed a defense on the western front.
Front, the entire western front was occupied by the Japanese army.
Commander Dai is worried. It is meaningless for the 200 Division to stick to Tonggu. The decisive battle of Mandalay has completely lost the entire layout. There are only Chinese troops in the entire Yunnan and Burma battlefield, and they have been penetrated by the Japanese army. Commander Du of the 5th Army has returned to China.
Lashio, the necessary place to pass through, was lost, and the 200 Division and the headquarters of the 5th Army were cut off in the middle.
The latest news received is that Commander Du is preparing to lead the 5th Army Headquarters and more than 10,000 troops under his command from entering the Savage Mountain, where there is no human existence, and crossing the Savage Mountain to return home.
Faced with such a battle situation, all Commander Dai can do now is to lead the 200 divisions to break out of the encirclement and then make plans.
Luo Yuesong climbed up a big banyan tree, stood on the thick branches, and observed the ancient city with a sniper rifle.
I don’t understand why I repeatedly informed Commander Dai that Sasaki’s regiment was about to reach the west of Tonggu City and form an encirclement on Tonggu. Why didn’t Commander Dai retreat north? Although Lashio was occupied by a Japanese regiment, Lashio
The garrison distance is still hundreds of miles compared to ancient times, and the gap in between is so large. The 200 Division has been fighting to this day. Although it has been repeatedly bombed by Japanese aircraft, artillery and tanks, the 10,000-strong division has not suffered a fatal blow so far. It can completely attack
Withdrawing from the north may even have a chance to recapture Lashio and re-stabilize the entire war situation.
Yes, Luo Yuesong had his reasons for thinking, but what Luo Yuesong didn't know was that what was fatal about the first expedition was not just the blind retreat of the British and Burmese troops, which easily left a large number of defensive positions to the Japanese army, which led to the strategic changes of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
The layout could not be achieved. More importantly, the brains of the expeditionary force, the headquarters of the expeditionary force, and the command of the expeditionary force were extremely uncoordinated, resulting in the loss of many key decision-making opportunities, which led to the passivity of the entire campaign.
Retreat, retreat. At five o'clock in the afternoon, the 200 Division had been completely surrounded by the Japanese troops from the southeast, northwest and northwest. At this time, most of the troops of the expeditionary force were doing one thing, and that was to retreat and retreat.
It is a pity that the 200 Division is now unable to retreat. Tonggu was not captured in 12 days of decisive battles. The commander of the Japanese 55th Division, Masao Watanabe, also became red-eyed and vowed to annihilate the 200 Division.
Where the 200th Division will go is not something Luo Yuesong can decide, nor can Luo Yuesong's special operations team control.
Luo Yuesong sat on the ground, smoking a cigarette. The national army, the national army, why do wars always end up in such a situation? Thinking back to the bloody battle at Taierzhuang commanded by Chief Li Zongren, as long as the brothers worked together, although the losses were heavy, more than 10,000 Japanese troops could be annihilated.
, I, Yangyang Zhonghua, what the hell is going on?
Luo Yuesong was in pain and had no means or ability to solve these problems. These were not things that he, a small major, and a special forces team of dozens of people could solve, whether it was a reconnaissance team, a raid, or an annihilation.
Oh my god, did the 100,000 expeditionary army collapse like this?