The first team to rush into Yangon was the mechanized tank regiment belonging to the armored brigade. In terms of speed, the brisk infantry tank ran much faster than the 30-ton Sherman, let alone those legs. Running infantry.
Less than half an hour after the attack order was issued, the leading troops of the tank regiment appeared at the feet of many civilian houses.
"Get off! Get off!"
The driver slapped the partition and the co-pilot climbed up to the machine gun position on the roof, holding an M2 heavy machine gun and looking ahead.
"Quick, quick! Move quickly!"
As the rear hatch of the vehicle opened, the soldiers on board filed out one after another.
Each infantry fighting vehicle can carry nine soldiers behind it. Under the command of their respective commanders, they quickly line up and spread out to establish a defense line.
"First row and second row, pay attention to the left and right wings, third row unload equipment, everyone stay alert!"
"Don't get together, don't get together! The machine gunners go upstairs, and whoever is there, send them the bullets!"
The commander of the infantry company who got out of the car was commanding the team hurriedly. The Japanese had not come out to attack for the time being, and they had to make arrangements before the opponent counterattacked.
Next, the more brutal street fighting may have just begun...
Without the indigenous food and water sources, it also gave the Japanese troops a breather, but we knew that the place outside was actually a tomb built by the expeditionary force. The real abyss was before stepping into this place...
The navy deliberately concealed the news in order to make a fool of itself in front of the army. As a result, the first batch of Japanese troops who rushed to the seaport to prepare for evacuation a few days ago were dumbfounded.
The way in was cut off, so it was possible to go back north. The Japanese were forced to find a way out and could only continue to flee westward. Because in the southwest is the mouth of the two small rivers, the Pasen River and the Yuhaopengdi River.
So we took all the indigenous men and old friends into the camp and tortured them severely. We still left them alive and buried them all alive before we were done.
Originally, some Japanese officers had not tried to organize their troops to set up an ambush under the main road and then find the right opportunity to break out, but the opponent gave us the opportunity to fight head-on.
It's also thanks to the fact that submarines are slow on the water, otherwise one of those troop carriers converted from civilian ships would be able to escape.
The worst thing was for these men. Their escape for days kept the Japanese in a state of fear and fear. In such a desperate situation, it seemed that they needed to vent their inner passion.
The end result is to think less. I dare say that the British army's pocket-class submarines are really a big friend when they attack transport ships that have no defense.
In one night's work, we sank one of the seventeen Japanese transport ships far away from the seaport, and the rest disappeared with their tails between their legs.
The original plan of the Japanese army was to complete the evacuation of Yuhaopengdi Province at the end of July and transfer all the troops to Yangon to weaken the defense here.
The British Lao had no time to spare. He immediately reported the news to the Mandalay Air Force Command before seeing traces of the Japanese troops. Soon, a small number of fighter planes appeared in the sky below the beach, facing the big Japanese above. There was a violent bombardment.
Since we broke out of the encirclement of Gankidang and retreated all the way south, we have basically lost all the luggage and equipment that should be thrown away. Weapons and ammunition are only a few, and few people are walking back hungry. We thought we could not take the boat. Escape from this place, but who would have thought that it would be a dead end.
The big Japanese was so angry that he wanted to get off his horse and bring in small cannons to send these British people to hell, but we fled without any heavy weapons at all, so we could only stand on the shore and look at the ocean and sigh.
As the saying goes, when a house leaks, it rains all night. What the Japanese army is facing now is just the enemy's pursuit and interception, not the increasingly serious supply problem.
After a series of encounters in those few days, the Japanese, whose morale was high, no longer wanted to face the enemy, and soon a smaller defeat trend emerged.
After a while, the leading troops of the 201st and 202nd Divisions of the New Army that were chasing them took over the fire again with the Japanese army.
With no water or food, the devils didn't care about anything else. Before going down to the island, they carried out a wave of burning, killing and looting. All the houses and food of the indigenous people were looted, and the women and children were even raped by ruthless people.
Kill.
After each armored convoy arrived at the combat position, they did not immediately attack inward. Instead, they dismounted the infantry on the vehicle and launched defenses on the spot, ready to respond to sudden enemy attacks and wait for friendly forces still on the road behind them.
Unlike the fierce life-and-death battles on the battlefield in Yangon, there were almost no Japanese troops in Yinrawaddy Province who were resisting frontally.
At this moment, we just want to escape the enemy's blockade as quickly as possible, and we have no desire to continue fighting.
The southern part of Yinrawaddy Province is basically composed of small plains and crisscrossed rivers, with many mountainous areas and dense forests. The Japanese army was unable to establish an ineffective defense line in that place. They could only keep advancing southward in order to get back. Take a transport ship from the river outlet to leave there.
The various units quickly lost contact with each other, and they were all running their own separate ways. The commander could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the commander.
At this point in the battle, a small number of Japanese soldiers still had little fighting spirit in their hearts. Originally, few of us were recruits who had just been on the battlefield and had fought a few battles. In addition, the frontline supplies were in chaos, and the team was running out of food. They abound.
The New Army soldiers used white phosphorus bombs, and the jungle was filled with the wails and screams of the Japanese. Their bodies were burned to pieces, and they crushed the opponent's team that had been assembled with difficulty or with difficulty.
The new army will launch a new offensive before the general offensive next month, and even less is doing a driving mission. Just like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, these thousands of Japanese soldiers retreated all the way south.
Due to the rushing action of the southern plain, the river formed an extremely small octagonal basin outside it. There are hundreds of small and large alluvial islands, among which the dense trees can also play a certain concealment role.
"Put the mortar in the yard and don't fire it without my order!"
When the Japanese used telescopes to observe, some British sailors stood under the submarine suspended on the sea and looked at us, seeming to laugh at our ability and weakness.
There are not many local aborigines under those big islands. We have lived here for generations and made a living by fishing in the Bajiaozhou Basin. Now we have been unlucky for four lifetimes.
The fewer and fewer Japanese troops were driven to the Bajiaozhou at the mouth of the Yuhaopengdi River. Before learning the news that the transport fleet was attacked, everyone's heart dropped to the bottom, and despair arose spontaneously.
As a result, the naval fleet had not yet completed its operations, and the small battle in Yangon had not yet begun. The weak fleet sent to the Bajiaozhou of the Yinrawaddy River waited at the mouth of the sea for several days, and some advancing teams arrived. , but waited for the British submarine to attack.
For a time, an extremely cruel killing process was staged on the entire Bajiaozhou islands and reefs in the Yinlowaddy River.
None of the ships originally waiting here were watching, but instead there were a few British submarines docked under the water at the mouth of the sea.
Faced with the situation of no pursuing troops before there was a way out, the desperate Japanese had no choice but to build their own large rafts and hide under these large islands in Bajiazhou.
