Groves, muddy, take a step to drop a shoe kind, fortunate Japanese army although thrown away the pursuit, but unfortunately encountered the same path to plan to encircle the Japanese Army of the British and Indian Combined Forces, fought a difficult encounter, misty drizzle day and night, gunfire, blood and flesh, with the spirit of fanatical Bushido, has been hungry into a stupid United Army front, super unsmooth to reach the Allied stronghold imphal, and the Japanese army at this time suddenly realized, in its current state, It's really hard to say who hit whom...
Although the losses of the Battle of Imphal were not as good as the Battle of Nomonkan in 1939, it was also a humiliating battle of the Japanese army, unless the Japanese army had the ability to attack the camp and pull out the village in one fell swoop, otherwise, defeat was an inevitable outcome.
At that time, Japan's tactics were already outdated, and like the great defeat at Nomonkan, it lacked timely and effective information research and practical application, which was a world of difference from Zhukov's meticulousness in reconnaissance.
It can be said that the Japanese army at that time did not have the conditions for combat, and reality proved that although the combat capability of the Anglo-Indian coalition army was deviated, it could still effectively block the Japanese army in the case of playing the main field, at least for the time being.
The harsh environment is similar to the Qing-Burma War
The difficulties encountered in the environment, the Battle of Imphal was similar to the Qing-Burma War, and the Qing soldiers were also reduced by more than half due to environmental factors, and even Fu Cha Fu Heng was killed.
Many friends feel that the Qing army is incompetent, in fact, the Qing-Burma War was quite good, in that environment the two armies fought against each other, the deputy general, the chief soldier, the admiral died of illness, Fu Heng also died after returning to Beijing with illness, because the sick soldiers were halved, facing the Burmese army that far exceeded the level of Qing firearms and fought for many years, and the Burmese army did not fight in one place for a short and long mobile strategy jungle warfare and fought very smartly, and it was very good to be able to draw.
After the Qing-Burmese war, some officials mentioned the issue of Burmese firearms, but you and Qianlong talked about firearms, and he talked to you about riding and shooting, and there was no way to communicate, and it was not resolved.
What kind of environmental factors can have such a big impact on the troops?
"A green hell of steaming mist."
The same source of the disease caused by the disease, including but not limited to malaria, dysentery, cholera, influenza, typhoid fever, etc., are all infectious diseases, one ten to ten hundred, especially known as the army nemesis of typhoid fever, once it breaks out, basically the entire army is abolished, otherwise the Japanese are stupid, it is difficult to hit the door of the house but do not attack, it is really enough to hold back.
Battlefield isolation? Don't be funny.
When is this situation most serious? During the rainy season, the jungle after the rain was extremely threatening to people and had two major effects on the Japanese army:
The rainy season arrives, the temperature is higher, the jungle poisonous fog is steaming, there is nowhere to hide;
The water flow was turbulent, the logistics were replenished, and the transportation was not easy, and the rations of the Japanese army were reduced from 6 taels per meal to 0.3 taels per meal, that is, 3 yuan. When the Anglo-Indian coalition army cleared the battlefield, it found a phenomenon: there were still grass residues in some Japanese troops...
The cause of the outbreak of the Battle of Imphal
On the surface, Germany's initiative on the battlefield was gradually lost, requiring the Japanese army to go to war in eastern India to disrupt the strategic layout of the Allies, but in fact, Japan still launched the Imphal Campaign because of its own needs.
As early as 1942, shortly after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan occupied all of British Burma in only half a year, and quickly cut off the 2,300-kilometer-long Burmese route to China with this momentum, but with the gradual mobilization of allied forces and the establishment of the Allied Command in Southeast Asia, the situation of the Japanese troops stationed in Burma became more and more critical, and they had to defend against the three-point attacks of Yunnan, Lido, and Imphal at the same time.
At the end of 1943, Lieutenant General Mutaguchi, who was in charge of the 15th Division, gradually could not suppress his inner anxiety and applied to Tokyo to attack Imphal directly and weaken its strength by attacking Allied positions to deal with the deteriorating passive situation. His application was approved by Tokyo, and the death journey began.
At that time, the goal of the coalition army was very clear, that is, to recover Burma, and the only task of the Japanese troops stationed in Burma was to protect the "fruits of victory", there was no room for any discussion between the two, a big war was inevitable, the difference was only sooner or later, in the face of the numerical superiority of the coalition army, Japan had to preemptively attack the living forces of the coalition army.
Mountbatten's strategy
After learning of the detailed movements of the Japanese army, the commander-in-chief, Mountbatten, promptly ordered the troops to enter a state of combat readiness and effectively gather troops in order to block the Japanese army in the Imphal Heights and take advantage of the geographical advantages.
Mountbatten didn't drill groves, and he knew exactly what jungle warfare meant.
What are the Japanese afraid of? In fact, for both sides, it is a matter on the table, and no one can hide from anyone.
The Japanese feared that with the rainy season, poison and supplies would become a problem.
Mountbatten also knows, so he will not drill into the grove to meet the Japanese army, what he has to do is to drag the Japanese army into the depths of the battle of Imphal, you have to defend the impenchable decisive battle, you want to fight Imphal, I will fight in Imphal, one more step, and after the Japanese army arrives here, I can easily cut off your super long supply line and cut off all your supplies.
This is also very similar to the Qing-Burma War, the Burmese army's faction, on the border really can not defeat the Qing army, of course not, they fight while retreating, is to drag you into the Jedi, a Jedi that can not transport supplies, the Qing army ran out of food and grass ammunition and did not have supplies to deliver, in order to avoid starvation and start to retreat, that is, when the Burmese army launched a general offensive.
Outbreak of the Battle of Imphal
In just 20 days, the Japanese advanced to a distance of only 20 kilometers from Imphal, and it seemed that victory was within reach, and a north-south encirclement had been formed.
Mountbatten was besieged in the face of the battle, which Mountbatten did not expect, and he hurried to the United States for help, which called on military transport aircraft to deliver all the weapons and supplies that Mountbatten desperately needed.
Japan's heavy artillery and tanks played a good role in assisting, the joint army front in the gradual pull, the Japanese army is pressing step by step, and this time the turn of the Japanese army unexpectedly, grain supplies have not been transported from the rear, the Japanese army's rations from 6 two gradually reduced to 0.3 two, on the contrary, the united army, tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea has never been interrupted supply.
Taking advantage of your illness and wanting your life, the combined army, which was slightly relieved, immediately threw in a counterattack, cutting off the retreat of the Japanese 33rd Division, and they did not need to win, as long as they consumed enough time for the Japanese army to win.
The recalcitrant Japanese could not attack for a long time, of course, they could not wait for death on the spot, and since the retreat route had been cut off, they would detour in the opposite direction to the north of Imphal.
Groves, muddy, take a step to drop a shoe kind, fortunate Japanese army although thrown away the pursuit, but unfortunately encountered the same path to encircle the Japanese Army of the British and Indian Combined Forces, fought a difficult encounter, drizzling day and night, gunfire, blood and flesh, with the spirit of Bushido, the Japanese army that has been hungry into a stupid shortage finally broke through the second-rate combat strength of the United Army front, super unsmooth to reach the Allied stronghold of Imphal.
The Japanese finally reached imphal, an Allied stronghold, which naturally had a large number of Allied and Allied troops stationed there, but it was difficult to say who would fight whom.
It had now been five months since the three weeks of the agreed takeover of Imphal, the Epidemic of the Japanese Army, at least one-third of the people infected with the disease and the loss of combat effectiveness, the highest number of deaths in a single day exceeded a thousand, and after receiving orders from Tokyo, the Japanese army began to flee on a large scale, abandoning their encirclement.
The Anglo-Indian coalition chased all the way to see a scene of astonishing scenes, the Japanese army completely lost combat effectiveness, the only thing they could do was to escape, many Japanese troops have lost almost all their physical strength, in order to escape, they threw away all their equipment, many Japanese troops starved to death on the way to escape, in the eyes of the coalition army, they are simply a skeleton, thin off of human form, many Japanese troops are still eating grass before death, so that after death, many Japanese troops have grass left in the mouth.
Relatively speaking, the most spectacular is still the Japanese army's super long supply line, it is really a beautiful landscape, God knows who gave him self-confidence, this kind of ultra-long line is not cut off is too unreasonable, when the coalition army pursues the Japanese army, found that all the way is the Japanese transport truck, the car is full of ammunition and food, in addition to the death of the driver, everything is so well preserved.
In this battle, the Japanese suffered 25,000 casualties, but was it over after the defeat? Of course not, the Chinese Expeditionary Force also launched a counterattack in Burma, like a double knife inserted into the chest of the Japanese army... Since then, the Japanese have no longer been able and courageous to attack Allied positions.