The commander in charge of the army that attacked Myitkyina was Zhang Wenhao. He defected to Wang Jiuling relatively early. He also graduated from the Infantry Department in Baoding. His military quality can be said to be one of the few in the Qin army.
Myitkyina is an important town in northern Myanmar. It is located on the west bank of the Irrawaddy River and is at the end of the Myanmar railway. It has become a water and land transportation hub. It is connected to Bhamo in the south, Mengong in the west, Sunbula Mussel and Grape in the north, and Kampai in the east.
The road from Di extends eastward for a hundred miles, and reaches Tengchong. The Irrawaddy River turns east and turns south through Myitkyina City, flowing to Bhamo. The surrounding areas are mountainous, with altitudes ranging from about 500 to 1,000 meters. The northwest of the city is a small plain with slightly undulating terrain.
(11 kilometers each in length and width), there are jungle railways running through the city from south to north, turning westward from the British military barracks and shooting range. There are two airports in the west and north. The west airport can still be used, and the north airport can still be used.
The airport and the proposed East Airport will need to be renovated before they can be used.
The British army in Myanmar attaches great importance to the strategic position of Myitkyina, so they stationed a brigade of more than 3,000 people here, plus 10,000 indigenous people, as well as complete infantry, artillery, and armored vehicles. Although these are relatively old-fashioned, they are used in the city.
, no problem at all
The commander of Myitkyina is British Colonel Merrill. This guy started planning the defense of Myitkyina after the Qin army stationed an army in Tengchong and Yingjiang counties. Although the people below laughed at him, he still went his own way.
But whether the defense he planned is effective can only be known on the battlefield.
Wang Jiuling has always taught soldiers to adopt the principle of destruction for those places with strong defenses, especially places where there are not many Han people. Instead of exchanging the lives of soldiers for those garbage cities, Wang Jiuling is more willing to build a new one.
If Wang Jiuling does not plan to occupy this place, there is no need to maintain other people's things. People will not thank you. If you stay and occupy this place, then sooner or later these buildings will be changed into Chinese-style buildings, so sooner or later they will be demolished. Now
Just in time to be destroyed by planes and cannons
On April 1, while attacking on other fronts, Zhang Wenhao's army also crossed the China-Myanmar border and attacked Myitkyina. After Zhang Wenhao and others eliminated the remaining enemies outside Myitkyina City, they surrounded Myitkyina. However, they did not attack, but instead
Waiting for the Air Force
As Wang Jiuling said, Wang Jiuling does not need any city, but the prerequisite is that the people in the city must die, so as not to drag Wang Jiuling down and waste food.
Zhang Wenhao's troops repaired the airport that was destroyed by the air strike within an hour. Soon the Air Force transport plane arrived at Myitkyina Airport, and the Air Force bombers also arrived at Myitkyina, but they first dropped the napalm bombs they carried on Myitkyina.
, the city was in flames and could not be extinguished. 50 bombers and 50 fighter jets were stationed at the west and north airports respectively.
Half an hour later, napalm and bombs fell on the city of Myitkyina again, but mainly on the British fortifications in the city. The British and indigenous troops in the city were scared of being bombed, especially for those who
The bombs exploded with countless sparks flying, and they were extremely frightened. They saw with their own eyes that their comrades were caught by the sparks of the bombs, and then their whole bodies burned until they were burned to death. They could not put them out even if they tried to put them out.
Before seeing the Qin army, Merrill's army suffered one-third casualties, but the most important thing was that as soon as morale hit the bottom, the soldiers were desperate, and no one would come to save them now. As for the natives, they were even more unreliable.
Maybe you are thinking of surrendering now
Merrill wanted to fight for a while before surrendering, but the Qin army did not attack at all. After the third round of bombing, 155 mm, 105 mm... various sizes of calibers fired fiercely into the city. There were fighter jets in the sky to guide them to the target.
The first thing to be bombed was the British fortifications, and then slowly and indiscriminately attacked the surrounding areas with firepower. The houses, including the natives inside, were reduced to ashes.
Merrill couldn't sit still. The Qin army didn't attack. The shells seemed to be free of charge. He could hit them as much as he wanted. He was trying to kill them! If the city was bombed, it didn't matter if they died. The natives would die.
It didn't matter, but there were still many British expatriates in the city. Merrill felt that he had done his best and could surrender, for the sake of the British expatriates in the city.
So he sent a clear message to Zhang Wenhao, expressing his intention to surrender, but asking for humanitarian treatment. This is what Westerners would add when surrendering.
Zhang Wenhao quickly replied and agreed to their surrender, and Myitkyina fell.
Three hours after the Qin army launched its attack, at eight o'clock on April 1, Wang Jiuling issued a stern statement on the radio.
First of all, he accused the British of being despicable and shameless. In the past five months since the founding of the Qin State, they had caused a total of 167 incidents, which fully revealed that the British were despicable, had low personalities, and were as ugly as a gorilla who liked to enslave other people.
At the same time, he called on the nations oppressed by the British around the world to rise up and resist the colonial rule of British imperialism.
At the same time, it was announced that on April 1, 1935, the Qin government had counterattacked against the despicable, obscene and despicable behavior of the British.
Millions of Qin troops fought back with the anger of the Qin army and the heroic souls who died at the hands of the British. It was hoped that after the Qin army attracted the main force of the British army, the various ethnic groups oppressed by the British would take advantage of the empty defense of the British to revolt as soon as possible.
Drive away these colonists and strive for national independence. Finally, Wang Jiuling added, "All imperialism is a paper tiger."
Wang Jiuling's statement caused an uproar in the world. The people of Qin, which had just been founded less than five months ago, actually went to war against the British, who were known as the number one in the world, and they were already fighting.
The British were very embarrassed because within three hours after Wang Jiuling launched the war, the Qin army made rapid progress and was extremely brave. The British army was beaten to a pulp and had no power to fight back.
The British didn't release the news at first because the performance of the British army was really embarrassing, and they left it to their grandma's house. They thought that Qin didn't declare war and didn't release the news because they wanted to negotiate terms, and then they could be ranked first in the world.
The name of the Qin State was firmly suppressed. Who would have thought that Wang Jiuling did not release the news because many people in the east were sleeping, so he released the news later.
The news released by Qin also caught the British off guard. The British fought with the Qin army for more than three hours and lost more than 100,000 people, but they remained silent. A large number of British people and reporters blocked Downing Street to inquire about the situation of the battle.
British Prime Minister Ramsey Macdonald had a hard time saying that the army had suffered a complete defeat. He was almost seventy years old. When he heard that the army had suffered a complete defeat, the public was furious and he looked even older.