Chapter 355: Allied forces regain Myanmar (17)

Searching and suppressing the remaining Japanese soldiers is a meticulous job. All the Japanese soldiers who can persevere are extremely patient and extremely tenacious veterans. They have rich practical experience and disguised skills. When searching and suppressing the remaining Japanese, every time they eliminate one Japanese soldier, the ** soldiers often have to pay the lives of one or two soldiers.

Commander Huang Wei felt very distressed when he received the report of casualties by soldiers. So the commander ordered that when searching for and suppressing the participating Japanese soldiers, all the ruins in the block would be knocked down and flattened with tanks. For the ruins that the Japanese army might have hidden, they would be pressed with tanks, and some dark corners that were inconvenient to search were sprayed with flamethrowers to burn them clean.

As a result, the casualties of ** soldiers dropped rapidly. The means of clearing the battlefield made it difficult for Japanese soldiers to hide, the Japanese resistance became weaker and weaker, and the fighting will quickly dissipated under the combined attack of steel, ** and napalm.

After four days of fierce fighting, when Chinese soldiers rushed into the headquarters of the 62nd Division of the Japanese Army, the Japanese soldiers were swept down one by one by one by the ** soldiers holding submachine guns. The Japanese telecommunications soldiers were pointed at by Chinese soldiers with guns, stood up obediently, and raised their hands. Maudan's gunshot finally stopped, but when asked to click on the bodies and numbers of Japanese officers and soldiers, Lieutenant General Yoshio Hongo was not found.

When interrogating the captured Japanese telecommunications soldiers, they did not know the whereabouts of the lieutenant general. Until the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield were cleaning the corpses of the Japanese, they found a dozen corpses of a man in a soldier uniform, about fifty years old in a soldier uniform, which aroused the curiosity of the soldiers. After being identified by the Japanese prisoners, they were confirmed to be the corpse of Lieutenant General Yoshio Hongo.

While Sun Liren launched the Battle of Mao Danmian, Yue Hanping led the 6th Army and the New 6th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which were then transported urgently, and together with several of the original troops, they launched the Battle of Yangon.

When the battle was launched, General Aung San led his Burmese Self-Defense Forces to launch a sudden uprising, attacking the Japanese army's fire warehouse in Yangon City, and suddenly launched an attack behind the Japanese defenders in Ximen, cooperating with the Chinese team to capture the Japanese position in Ximen, Yangon, and opened the Yangon city gate.

The 201st Division of the Youth Army and the 22nd Division of the New Sixth Army were the first to rush into Yangon City. The Japanese army in the Sunshine City refused to surrender, but the subordinate Philippine army was not so tenacious. Seeing the murderous people all over the city holding submachine guns, constantly firing at the Japanese and Filipino soldiers who refused to surrender. The fighting will of the Philippines was completely defeated, and they all surrendered to the attacking Chinese army.

Under the leadership of the Myanmar Self-Defense Forces, Chinese soldiers successfully occupied the Japanese army's arms warehouse and important material distribution center. The Japanese soldiers who fought with trapped beasts gradually controlled the density of their shooting, and their ammunition was becoming more and more limited, so they had to save ammunition.

When Yangon City was in a street battle, the Japanese base camp finally woke up. In order to save the elite Imperial Army's 2nd Division and the face of the Myanmar Front, the Japanese base camp ordered the fleet stationed in the Philippines to transport the 2nd Division to the Malay battlefield at all costs and allocate it to General Fengwen of Yamashita.

The Japanese warships were dispatched overnight and secretly entered Motama Bay, bringing the Japanese 2nd Division and the commander of the Myanmar Front, Lieutenant General Yuuo Matsuyama.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force quickly eliminated the remaining Japanese soldiers in Yangon and occupied Yangon. More than 6,000 Philippine soldiers were captured.

Bogu was voluntarily abandoned by the Japanese army, and the 134th Division of the 20th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force occupied Bogu. At the same time, the Japanese army on the Rakhine Peninsula was also cleared by the British army. The British army attacked south along the peninsula and captured Bosheng, a big city in western Yangon.

As of November 23, 1943, the Chinese Expeditionary Force, British and Indian troops, and US troops completely occupied Myanmar. The news of Myanmar's restoration reached Cairo. The heads of state and the United States and British countries, Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek, were full of joy, while Churchill looked solemn.

Out of politeness, Churchill still squeezed out a smile and congratulated Chiang Kai-shek and his wife. Chairman Chiang was proud at this time. He smiled gracefully, his chest unconsciously raised, making the marshal's uniform of the sea, land and air on his body look particularly straight.

President Roosevelt took the opportunity to discuss how to return the territorial issue of forcibly occupying China after Japan's defeat. Churchill was unhappy, but he was helpless. When the British army was chased out of Myanmar by the Japanese army, it was the Chinese Expeditionary Force who withdrew from the Japanese army's attack and saved half of Myanmar's territory with his own strength.

The British made things difficult for the Chinese Expeditionary Force everywhere, but the Chinese Expeditionary Force overcomes many difficulties with extraordinary courage and takes the overall situation into consideration. Compared with the British and Burmese army that was about to collapse, the Chinese Expeditionary Force's fighting will and combat quality were also recognized by the Americans who were above the top.

Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly stated that China had no intention of competing for control of Myanmar with Britain, but the fact is that China had formed considerable influence in Myanmar. President Roosevelt of the United States intentionally or unintentionally wanted to support China in establishing a new order in the Far East. "Whoever has a strong fist will have the right to speak." Churchill sighed secretly. Today's British Empire is no longer the empire of the past, it is now just a small follower of the United States.

Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart, "For many years, the status of a great power that the Chinese nation longed for has been exchanged for blood through the heroic struggle of the whole nation. The territory such as Taiwan, which the Qing Dynasty had forced to ced, will also be taken back. What a glory."

President Roosevelt believed that the Chinese nation made great sacrifices in the world anti-fascist war, and China made important contributions to the world anti-fascist war. Although this meeting mainly discussed the stop and punishing Japan's aggression and deprived all islands seized or occupied in the Pacific since the beginning of World War I in 1914, in view of China's great contribution, it was recommended that the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 be ceded to Japan's Taiwan, the Penghu Islands and its affiliated islands be returned to China, and the puppet Manchukuo supported by Japan in Northeast China was illegal political fu, which the international community did not recognize. After Japan was defeated, the puppet Manchukuo territory should be returned to China.

Prime Minister Churchill knew it was useless to oppose it, not to mention that he did not want China to divide the British colonies. Now he is just taking back China's ceded and occupied territory. This kind of favor must be done. Churchill said that he had no objection and supported China's regaining the occupied territory.

At the end of the lunch meeting, President Roosevelt specially made an appointment with Chiang Kai-shek alone and proposed to hand over Ryukyu, which was originally a vassal of China (now Okinawa), to China's jurisdiction. Chiang Kai-shek was secretly happy. Yue Hanping suggested to him in a secret telegram to him and chose the right time to propose to Roosevelt for the Ryukyu Islands. Now President Roosevelt took the initiative to propose that Chiang Kai-shek could not figure out Roosevelt's mentality, so he thought for a moment and replied to President Roosevelt: "Dear Mr. President, I suggest that China and the United States jointly manage the Ryukyu Islands."

President Roosevelt smiled slightly and didn't say anything. He greeted Chiang Kai-shek politely and went back to his room.

Chiang Kai-shek, who returned to the room, was uneasy. If it weren't for Yue Hanping's secret telegram, he wouldn't have figured out the intention of this meeting. Through the two days of meeting discussion, he understood. Chiang Kai-shek laughed and scolded: "Mom, hippie! It's really a spoil-sharing meeting. Now we will discuss the division of the territory originally occupied by the Japanese army. So, do I want the Ryukyu Islands?"

The next night, while walking, Chiang Kai-shek met President Roosevelt again. President Roosevelt took the initiative to say hello, and the two chose a quiet place and sat down. Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt chatted for a while, and President Roosevelt once again proposed to hand over the Ryukyu Islands to Chinese jurisdiction.

President Roosevelt said bluntly: "His Excellency Chairman, our strategic focus of the United States is in Europe, not Asia. The world anti-fascist war has begun a strategic counterattack. The failure of Germany, Italy and Japan is destined. We do not want to see a powerful Soviet Union appear in the Far East, but we do not have too much power to restrain the Soviet Union in the Far East.

China's performance in this war completely demonstrates the courage of a great power. I want to ask China to station troops in Japan after Japan is defeated to prevent the rise of Japanese fascism. If China controls the Ryukyu Islands, it is equivalent to pressing the blade on Japan's neck, which is more conducive to controlling Japan.

If China occupies Ryukyu, it can directly join forces with the US Navy in the Pacific Ocean to suppress the Soviet Navy from controlling the Pacific Ocean. Please consider my suggestions carefully."

Chiang Kai-shek's stomach turned seventeen or eighteen times. If Chiang Kai-shek was not fully confident before attending the meeting, when he received the news that the Chinese Expeditionary Force had recovered Yangon, Chiang Kai-shek gradually became full of confidence. Especially the attitude of the United States, out of the interests of the United States, President Roosevelt intentionally or unintentionally wanted to support China to become a veritable great power and to suppress the Soviet Union in the Asia-Pacific region.

Europe is the traditional interests of the United States. In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has no extra strength to confront the Soviet Union and is unwilling to directly confront the Soviet Union. Therefore, China, which is also a major power, is very important. President Roosevelt's attitude towards China during World War II basically laid the US's Asia-Pacific strategy. On the contrary, if China and the Soviet Union are too close, it will seriously threaten the US's interests in the Asia-Pacific.

Thinking of this, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly felt a sense of pride. China's attitude can finally influence the two major powers of the United States and the Soviet Union, and China has become the key force in the game between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Although the Soviet Union had helped China during the War of Resistance, it was also due to the national interests of the Soviet Union, and he did not want China to be defeated to Japan soon. The cruel and ruthless Stalin was not given for nothing, but China tightened its belt and exchanged it for agricultural products. But the two countries had different ideologies after all, they started with FG and had no good impression of the Soviet Union.
Chapter completed!