194 1 65438+February, Japanese invaders 15 troops invaded southern Myanmar and approached Yangon. In that month, China, Britain and the United States held a joint military meeting in Chongqing, and decided that China would "send troops to Myanmar in a few days to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese aggressors".
One hundred thousand troops marched south.
For the people of China during the arduous Anti-Japanese War, ensuring the security of Myanmar is directly related to the security of the rear area of the Anti-Japanese War. But for Britain, Myanmar is at best India's peripheral barrier. Although the British who colonized Myanmar managed their own affairs, they did not forget to plan their own "career"-what if China's army beat the Japanese away in Myanmar and persisted? In this way, the action of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Myanmar was delayed by the British army, and the Japanese army lost its excellent fighter plane "halfway strike" when the situation in Myanmar was unstable. American President Roosevelt was determined to convince the British, because he knew that only if China persisted in the war of resistance in Asia could Britain and the United States concentrate on dealing with Nazi Germany in Europe. 194 1 At the end of the year, the allied forces decided to merge the war zones of Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam and China into the China-Myanmar-India war zone. In order to coordinate the relationship between the British and Chinese armies, Roosevelt also appointed General Stilwell as the chief of staff of the theater.
When Roosevelt was busy threading a needle between China and Britain, the Japanese were not idle. 194 1 February 23, 12, the Japanese army started a full-scale invasion of Myanmar. The British army collapsed in June the following year, and Yangon fell on March 8. However, the Japanese did not expect that at this time, the 654.38+ 10,000 troops of the 5 th, 6 th and 66 th armies of the Chinese Expeditionary Force were marching into Myanmar. China National Government took out 9 of all 15 mechanized divisions to fight in Myanmar, which shows that it attaches great importance to this campaign.
1in March, 942, Dai Anlan led 200 divisions to leap thousands of miles to reach Tonggu, an important town in southern Myanmar.
Tonggu is located 260 kilometers north of Yangon, at the crossroads of land and water. When the 200 th Division arrived here, the first thing it saw was not the Japanese army, but a large number of British troops defeated from Yangon. These British troops were really scared by the Japanese, and many of them fled to Mandalay in the north together with the ancient capital, leaving a large number of abandoned weapons on both sides of the road. It was here that the Chinese Expeditionary Force fought the first fierce battle with the Japanese invaders since they entered Myanmar. From March 19, the 200th division and the 55th division of the Japanese army in the north were killed in the dark. On 24th, 100, more than one Japanese death squad member touched the most cup position, and platoon leader Ma Licheng was killed by six bullets. On 26th, Wu Dun's position was lost twice, and the 3rd Battalion of the 597th Regiment and the Japanese army suffered repeated battles and defeats, all of which were heroic sacrifices ... Although the Japanese army dispatched 100 sorties to bomb the ancient city every day, the Tonggu defense line was still unbroken. However, 1 1 days later, the Japanese army tore open the defense line of the 200th division. The reason is not that Hironaka Takeuchi, the head of the 55th Division, did anything amazing, but that their reinforcements 56th Division suddenly appeared. On the evening of 30th, under the cover of the new 22nd Division, deus ex, the 200th Division, successfully broke through. In the end, the war with ancient China ended with the voluntary withdrawal of China's troops.
1In April, 942, the Chinese Expeditionary Force set out and fought a decisive battle with the Japanese main force in the Pinmanna area of central Myanmar. The war is just around the corner, but the British army on the west side of the front line has lost its chain again. On June 16, the 33rd Division of the Japanese army quickly crossed the three lines of defense of the British army and surrounded nearly 10,000 British troops in yenangyaung. /kloc-on the night of 0/7, just as the British commander began to pray to God, a miracle really appeared-an China army suddenly appeared, destroying a Japanese wing and opening a retreat channel for the trapped British army. This unit is the new 38 th division of the 66 th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. To thank China's army for its rescue, the Queen of England awarded General Sun Liren, the commander of the new 38th Division, with the medal of "Commander of the Empire". Although the victory of the Battle of yenangyaung can't be called "brilliant", it was the first victory of the Chinese Expeditionary Force after it entered Myanmar, which dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese invaders.
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