In film and television dramas or novels about war, we often see legendary stories of generals who make strange moves and win more with less. They used their superior military qualities and unexpected military tactics to beat the enemy army to a pulp, which made people look at it directly.
Although most people do not understand any military tactics, nor are they war wizards. But many people understand the simplest truth, that is, after the enemy is surrounded, it is basically difficult to escape with wings, and only sits and waits for defeat. If encirclement warfare is also a tactic, then the success rate of its defeat of the enemy can be said to be close to one hundred percent.
Therefore, in many real-time strategy war games today, the so-called "dumpling" tactic has always been popular, and it can be said that siege warfare is one of the most suitable tactics for the attacking side.
Why is the encirclement so powerful? Because it traps the enemy in a fixed range, and it is easy to cut off the enemy's food supply, and even do not need to face the battle head-on, it can consume the enemy to death by consumption alone. Therefore, when fighting a war, both sides are racking their brains to encircle and break through, to put it bluntly, encirclement warfare is frequently used on the battlefield and is very important.
However, there was a very special situation on the battlefield of Burma during World War II, where the besieged troops sat back and were at ease, while the encircled troops were so anxious that they were like ants on a hot pot, and finally they were almost consumed by the besieged troops.
It happened in 1943, the Japanese army on the battlefield in Southeast Asia was preparing to launch an offensive against the Imphal region of India, the Imphal region was the only springboard for Burma to enter India, and the strategic location was self-evident, when the Main Japanese army was in Burma, and if you want to expand the battlefield, you must break through this place.
The supreme commander of the Japanese army in Burma, Mutaguchi Lian, mobilized a large number of Japanese troops and assembled in the Imphal area, and for this battle, Mutaguchi Lian can be said to be inevitable.
It was the rainy season in Burma, and the long and sweltering rainy season in the tropics was a big test for soldiers. Moreover, because it had been raining, the main road for grain and grass transportation was muddy, and the military trucks transporting supplies could not drive on it at all, and at that time, the Japanese army thought of using livestock to carry grain.
However, livestock do carry grain and travel freely on muddy roads. However, the efficiency is low, and it is necessary to ensure the normal supply of strategic materials through many heads. As a result, the mighty livestock convoy could easily be exposed to enemy vision. Thus being hit with precision.
That's what the British did, sending planes to bomb the Japanese livestock convoys carrying supplies. Annoyed and angry with the Japanese army, they decided to use the encirclement to cut off the British food line and fight back in the same way. Due to the small number of British troops, the Japanese army soon crossed the Chin Dun River and touched it. Adopting the method of back and forth, it formed an encirclement circle for the British army.
It is reasonable to say that the encircled British army will undoubtedly lose, and only to ask for more than one's life. However, things have reversed, and the main thing in the encirclement is to cut off the food supply. But then the United States entered the war and joined the Pacific Theater, and the British army asked the American army for help. The U.S. army did not send a single soldier, only sent two-priced aircraft reinforcements, and their task was to drop supplies on the British troops in the encirclement.
Therefore, even if the British army was besieged, their supplies were never broken, and they were very comfortable eating and drinking in the encirclement every day. In contrast, the Japanese army outside the encirclement, the sweltering and long Rainy Season climate in Burma, coupled with the daily surveillance of the British army have exhausted them physically and mentally.
Moreover, American aircraft also bombed the Japanese livestock convoys transporting grain and grass from time to time, and their grain storage was even inferior to that of the British troops in the encirclement. Soon, the Japanese troops ran out of grain and grass reserves, fell into a desperate situation, and a plague broke out, killing and wounding.
Mutaguchi saw that morale was demoralized, and in desperation, he had no choice but to order the withdrawal of his troops. In this way, the Japanese army's calculations against Imphal were all frustrated. In the final analysis, the Japanese fascists launched an unjust war, and the victory of justice over evil is also an inevitable trend of history.