To attack Burma, Wang Jiuling planned to attack from the southeast and northeast at the same time. In the southeast, he deployed Sun Chuanling's Second Army, most of Li Huixian's Fourth Army, an army of Huang Peiyao's First Army, and then a force of 150,000 soldiers.
The human garrison will assist in the occupation and takeover of Burma
What Huang Peiyao's army has to do is to occupy the narrow strip of land east of the lower reaches of the Nu River on the coast of Myanmar. Sun Chuanling's troops crossed the Nu River from the Chiang Mai line to attack Yangon, waiting for the coastal areas of Myanmar, while most of Li Huixian's troops went straight from the Chiang Mai line.
Attack Mandalay and fight towards India, while an army under him entered from Yunnan to the west of the Nu River and occupied Myitkyina, cutting off the retreat of the 50,000 British troops and 100,000 Indian-Burmese indigenous troops in Myanmar, and annihilating these troops in Myanmar
In the northeast, as early as a month ago, Wang Jiuling had transferred an army to be stationed in Ruili and other Chinese territories west of the Nu River. However, Shi Shi shocked the British, but later they discovered that Wang Jiuling was trying to scare them.
The Jedi did not dare to attack Burma, and the Qin army did not step into Burma in the next month. No matter how provocative the British were, the Qin army did not respond in the end. Only the Qin Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned and threatened the British again and again.
People had long been tired of hearing it, and their ears were calloused. At first, they strengthened their defenses, but after half a month, Qin State only knew how to protest, and they returned to their old ways.
The British believe that no one dares to challenge the British Empire's world hegemony. Those who want to challenge will be severely stepped on by the British. France, Germany, earlier Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands are all the same.
It was not until 5 a.m. on April 1, 1935, that the Qin army launched a full-scale attack on Myanmar in the southeast, northeast and east of Myanmar. They discovered that they were wrong. It was not a joke for Qin to attack them.
Because of Wang Jiuling's previous threat, the British army in Burma gathered 30,000 British troops and 50,000 Indian and Burmese indigenous troops within a range of 50 kilometers west of the Nu River. This gave Wang Jiuling an excellent opportunity to eliminate them.
In addition, there is a brigade of British troops and 10,000 natives stationed in Myitkyina, and the remaining 40,000 natives and more than 17,000 people are scattered throughout Myanmar.
The British Air Force in Myanmar only has about a hundred World War I-era aircraft. When flying such aircraft, you worry that they will suddenly come down from the sky.
As for Wang Jiuling's attack on Burma this time, he has two full armies, plus 150,000 takeover troops, a total of 550,000 people. If he still can't defeat the British army, then Wang Jiuling will kill all those officers.
This time Wang Jiuling also used the airborne division. What they have to do is to occupy the oil fields of Ren'anqiang. After the operation, other countries will inevitably block the sea and prohibit Qin from importing materials. Moreover, European and Chinese countries have always been anti-Chinese and suppressed the Chinese. In addition,
Under the influence of the British, it would be difficult for Wang Jiuling to obtain gasoline from outside. If so, once the war becomes a protracted war, Wang Jiuling's aircraft, armored vehicles, and machines that need to burn oil for cars will become scrap metal. Without cars to tow heavy artillery, cannons will also
If it cannot be used, Wang Jiuling can only use artillery, rifles and machine guns below 105 mm to fight the British equipped with aircraft and cannons. This is a terrifying thing.
Therefore, the airborne division must seize the oil fields and those facilities before the British destroy the oil fields and refining equipment. Now Myanmar's monthly oil production is 78,000 tons. With this oil, Wang Jiuling can sit back and relax. It is important for Myanmar to be able to export oil.
One of the economic resources before the war, oil was Myanmar's largest mining industry, with a maximum annual output of about 1 million tons. Myanmar's oil is distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Irrawaddy River in Yananqiang, Shaobu, Xingu, Yananjia, Lanyue, and Minbu.
, Palanyong, Jodaya, Dandai, Bi Daobin, Ren'anma, Yingdao, Yanbie (Langli Island) and the southern islands of Sittwe. After the 1960s, they were successively located in Ayato, Myang, Pyay,
Oil was discovered in Repida, Man, Libando and other places
It is very dangerous for the Airborne Division to parachute to seize the oil field. Even if the British army cannot blow up the oil field in time, they can still use artillery bombardment. The soldiers of the Airborne Division may become roasted by that time.
However, no matter what difficulties lie ahead, Wang Jiuling's plan is to quadruple the strength of the Qin army, and the British army is dispersed over more than 600,000 square kilometers of land, so the Qin army has an absolute advantage in both military strength and firepower.
When Huang Peiyao attacked the Malay Peninsula, the Myanmar Front Army composed of the Second and Fourth Group Armies, under the command of Commander-in-Chief Li Huixian and Deputy Commander-in-Chief, launched a fierce attack on Myanmar across the board.
First, 300 fighter jets and 250 bombers of the Air Force attacked Myanmar's air defense forces, and then they launched a fierce air attack on the British army and its affiliated forces.
After the planes destroyed Myanmar's air defense, 200 transport planes dropped two regiments of airborne troops near the oil fields of Yan'anqiang. All they had to do was to hold on for one to two days, and the army would definitely attack the Yan'anqiang area. Of course, this
It's the worst plan. It's hard to say whether the army will come at any time. After all, the gap in military strength and firepower is too obvious, because the Chinese people can't even think about losing.
Historically, the British were still very determined to encircle the mainland, but their determination to defend the colonies was not as good as that of the indigenous people.
Historically, because Germany was in Europe to contain them, no country in Europe can pose a threat to Britain in the short term, so Wang Jiuling did not determine what the resistance and determination of the Chinese people were like at this time. Wang Jiuling did not expect the British army to
Run away like history and give up their colonies
However, the situation in Burma was much better than Wang Jiuling expected. The Qin army attacked with 500,000 troops. After a fierce battle (the Qin army's artillery bombarded the British troop gathering place for a quarter of an hour, and there were still planes bombing in the sky).
, and then the armored division charged and solved the remaining more than 2,000 British troops. Originally, these British troops wanted to surrender, but they were entangled and did not want to surrender to the Chinese they despised, and the Qin army did not persuade them to surrender, so they were armored
After the battle in which the division was reduced to a pulp with a single charge, it was like entering an uninhabited land, heading directly towards the India-Myanmar border, and 150,000 garrison troops took over the order behind it.
The smoothness of the battle was staggering. Wang Jiuling did not expect that the British army was so unbearable. In fact, the British army was unjustly defeated. There are three main reasons why the Qin army marched so smoothly.
First, the airborne division severely damaged the morale of the British army. The Ren'an Qiang were defeated, and their retreat was cut off. Moreover, Myitkyina was also besieged by the Chinese army. With the aircraft flying all over the sky, the British felt that Qin troops were everywhere.
, they are bound to die, and their morale has plummeted.
The second huge gap in military strength was that the British had no way to defend Burma, which was hundreds of kilometers away. Therefore, many troops did not encounter the enemy at all on the road, but were infiltrated everywhere. This made the British troops who planned to hold on despair, and they did not escape.
They had no hope, and no one would come to save them. Looking at the sky full of shells, they knew they couldn't survive today, so they surrendered decisively.
The third is that the British never thought that Qin would really attack, so there were no fortifications at all. Otherwise, even if the Qin army captured the British positions, the casualties would be huge.