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"China" is inferior to men in guns, artillery, education and training, machines, and factories, so what can it do to fight Japan against Japan? If it resists Japan, it will be destroyed in three days at most. At the time of the "918" incident, Chiang Kai-shek's negative anti-Japanese remarks
On September 18, 1931, the Japanese army launched the "918 Incident", and Zhang Xueliang pursued a strategy of non-resistance, resulting in the Japanese army occupying the three northeastern provinces in less than half a year. Ishihara, one of the main planners of the "September 18 Incident," advocated stepping on the brakes after taking Manchuria, but as a result, he was not tolerated by the militarist fanatics and was kicked out of the army and sent to teach at a military academy.
Ishihara Wanji (January 18, 1889 ~ August 15, 1949) was a Japanese militarist advocate who believed in Nichiren Buddhism. One of the main culprits of the "September 18 Incident" was the operational staff officer of the Kwantung Army and the backbone of the "Yiyi Meeting," and he was a member of the group of young militarists in Japan. Ishihara actively advocated Japan's aggressive activities. He was worried that a full-scale invasion of China would plunge Japan into the quagmire of war and could not extricate itself, and advocated the gradual occupation of China. In 1928, on the recommendation of Daisaku Kawamoto, he served as deputy staff officer of the Kwantung Army. In the same year, the infamous "Ishihara Concept" was proposed. In 1931, he plotted the "September 18" incident with Hideki Tojo, Seishiro Itagaki, Kenji Dohihara, Shigeru Honjo and others, and occupied Northeast China under the pretext of occupying Northeast China. Ishihara was later dismissed due to a disagreement with Hideki Tojo.
Ishihara did not advocate that the Japanese army continue to expand the war, not because he had a "conscience," but because he was well aware of Japan's national strength and potential, and could not become a big fat man in one bite.
Offensive apex theory: "Most strategic offences can only be carried out until the moment when they are strong enough to defend themselves in anticipation of peace." Beyond this moment, there will be a drastic change, and there will be a counterattack or even a complete collapse. This moment is called the apex of the offense. ”
On July 28, 1937, in Nanyuan, Beiping, officers of the Japanese Tokugawa unit were checking the air raid report
The academic point of view is relatively obscure, and in layman's terms, the attack must be carried out according to its ability, and cannot exceed its own limit, and after exceeding, it will inevitably be counterattacked. How do you judge this limit? That is, whether you still have the strength to defend against the enemy's counterattack.
After the Japanese army occupied the northeast and established the "puppet state of Manchukuo", the main planners of the "September 18 Incident" soared to prominence, which made many Japanese generals envious, and they also hoped to replicate the story of the "September 18 Incident" and maximize their own interests. When Ishihara threw out the "emergency brake theory", he was naturally met with a cold reception and squeezed out.
Among those who wanted to replicate the story of the "puppet Manchukuo" were Akira Muto of the General Staff Headquarters, Shinichi Tanaka of the Ministry of the Army, and Shozo Kawabe and Ryoya Mutaguchi of the Chinese garrison. On July 7, 1937, they planned the "Lugou Bridge Incident" at the Lugou Bridge according to the gourd painting scoop, which opened the prelude to a full-scale invasion of China.
In 1942, they gathered in northern Myanmar as the military and political chiefs in charge of their own affairs, at this time, the opponent of the Japanese army became the allies, and after losing the advantage in weapons and equipment, the so-called "bushido spirit" of the Japanese army no longer worked, and the myth of invincibility in the frontal battlefield in China was shattered, and the typical battle that turned the myth of the Japanese army into a joke was the battle of Yubang.
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On November 4, 1943, the 2nd Battalion of the 112th Regiment of the 38th Division of the Chinese Army in India launched an attack on Yu Bang, an important town in the Hukang River Valley, during the counteroffensive in northern Burma. The 2nd Battalion was frustrated, changed its operational deployment, blocked the Dalong River crossing with heavy machine guns and mortars, encircled Yubang, waited for the 1st Battalion reinforcements to arrive, and worked together to attack the fortifications.
After receiving the news that the Japanese army was besieged, Tanaka Shinichi knew in his heart that the decisive moment with the Chinese army in India had come, and the victory or defeat of the first battle was very important, he ordered the 55th and 56th Wings and the 18th Mountain Artillery Wing to be sent from western Yunnan to reinforce them.
Shinichi Tanaka, a lieutenant general of the Japanese Army, served as the chief of the operations section of the Ministry of War and the chief of operations of the General Staff Headquarters at the outbreak of the war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, and was the most active one in expanding the war, at the end of 1942, due to the supply cut off from Kuah Island, he scolded the prime minister and Minister of War Hideki Tojo for being a bastard and was driven to Burma as the commander of the 18th Division, and suffered a fierce blow from the Indian army commanded by Stilwell, and in 1945, he commanded the failed Battle of the Irrawaddy River as the chief of staff of the Burma Front.
The situation at this time was very unfavorable for the 2 battalion, which was mainly manifested in the following aspects:
First, when the 112th Regiment went to Yubang to attack the fortification, the British provided incorrect information (the Japanese army in Yubang was weak and vulnerable), and strongly opposed the 112th Regiment carrying heavy weapons, and said that the soldiers were expensive and fast. Who knows, there are more than 2,000 Japanese troops stationed in Yubang, not only with strong fortifications, but also with heavy weapons.
On November 25, the Japanese reinforcements broke through the blocking position of the 2nd Battalion and successfully reached Yubang, with a total strength of more than 6,000 people, including four infantry brigades, a mountain artillery wing and a heavy artillery brigade.
Thirdly, although the area of Yubang is not large, the terrain is open and flat, and it is close to the Dalong River, which is a gate into the Hukang River valley, and the Japanese attach great importance to it, and after the arrival of reinforcements of the Japanese army, they quickly surrounded the 112th Regiment. The 112th Regiment asked the U.S. Army to bomb the U.S. Army, but the U.S. Air Force was covered with dense forests, and it was difficult for the U.S. Air Force to carry out precision bombing in the air, and the initiative on the battlefield was in the hands of the Japanese army.
Fourth, and even worse, there was a disagreement within the Allies. The American Patno, who held the military command, insisted that there were only a small number of Japanese troops west of the Dalong River, and strictly ordered the 112th Regiment not to retreat, and the 112th Regiment was thus in a desperate situation.
Sun Liren tried to persuade Patno to send troops to reinforce the 112th Regiment, but was sternly rejected by the stubborn Patno.
The Japanese moved quickly, with two infantry battalions and a mountain artillery battalion attacking the 1st and 2nd battalions encircling U Bang, and another infantry battalion joining up with Daro's half of the infantry battalion attacking the 3rd battalion defending the Rajasu Heights. The vanguard of the Japanese army at first forced the crossing of the Dalong River, but was mercilessly attacked by the defenders defending the ferry, and the Japanese troops who crossed the river on bamboo rafts became live targets and suffered heavy casualties.
After the arrival of the Japanese mountain artillery unit, it again covered the infantry crossing the river. The 1st and 2nd battalions lacked heavy weapons and could not suppress the enemy's fire with light fire, and were forced to retreat. The cunning Japanese army outflanked and sent a force to cut off the retreat of the 1st and 2nd battalions from behind, and the 1st and 2nd battalions and the rest of the 112th regiment were divided and surrounded by the Japanese and lost contact with each other.
Sun Tzu's Art of War: "Cast into the place of death and then survive, fall into the place of death and then live." "The 112th Regiment is already in the Jedi, can the Jedi survive?
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The new 38th Division, where the 112th Regiment is located, is a relatively special unit of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which was established in July 1942 by more than 9,000 Chinese soldiers led by Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang at the Ramgarh Training Base in India.
In addition to the traditional infantry regiments, the new 38th Division also has special arms such as howitzer battalions, engineer battalions, and communications battalions, and is equipped with all kinds of vehicles and various types of artillery not only in large quantities but also in good quality, and these advanced American equipment are far stronger and more powerful than the weapons of the Japanese army.
Overall, the newly formed 38th Division has surpassed one of the Japanese Army's Class A divisions in terms of firepower allocation and mobility. In addition, the 38th Division of the new division has very good food in normal times, and after a long period of systematic military training, its combat effectiveness is very strong.
In addition to meat, eggs, milk, bread and fruits, luxury foods such as coffee, canned beef, tea and cigarettes are also distributed, and there are not only comfortable tents, hammocks and other necessities when you travel, but also entertainment appliances such as projectors and record players. In addition to receiving a large amount of traditional military training, American instructors have also formulated for them actual combat training programs suitable for field or mountain warfare, such as mountain climbing, tree climbing, and armed swimming.
Due to their excellent military qualities, the officers of the 112th Regiment must do their best to save themselves when they know that they cannot break through. They fought and retreated, and finally chose the "forest sky" zone in the dense forest to hold on to help. As the name suggests, it is an open space in a dense forest, and the reason why the 112 th Regiment chose to hold on to the "forest empty zone" was not hot-headed, but the result of judgment based on battlefield experience.
In some parts of the jungles of northern Myanmar, the vegetation is relatively sparse because the ground is full of stones, and in the dense jungle, this small area of sparse vegetation is the forest clear.
The 112th Regiment chose the "forest area", on the one hand, it could use the surrounding jungle to interfere with the firing accuracy of the Japanese artillery and reduce casualties. On the one hand, it can defend the "forest sky" so that when the US Air Force is reinforced, it can accurately project supplies. The 112th Regiment in the lack of mortars and mule and horse transport under the disadvantage, on the 150-kilometer defensive line, repelled five times its own Japanese army countless charges, insisted on fighting for more than one month, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army.
As if he was a spy sent by the Japanese army, Patno has always refused to send reinforcements, let alone send air force supplies, and the 112th Regiment fought hard for more than a month. General Sun Liren was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but he was helpless, who told him that the command of the newly formed 38th Division was in the hands of the Yankees? After all, if the mouth of the eater is soft and the hand of the other is short, how can there be a free lunch in the world.
If there were no more reinforcements, it was only a matter of time before the 112th Regiment was completely annihilated.
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Ten days later, Stilwell came back, at the insistence of Sun Liren, he took a reconnaissance plane to the sky above Yubang to check on the spot, believed in Sun Liren's judgment, let Sun Liren personally lead the 113th Regiment, the 114th Fourth Regiment and the 2nd Mountain Artillery Battalion to reinforcements, because of the heavy weapons, coupled with the high mountains and dense forests, the roads were muddy, the reinforcements after 20 days of rapid marching, the fastest marching 114th Regiment arrived at the front line of Yubang, 3 days later on the 24th, the mountain artillery battalion arrived.
At the same time, the air support of the U.S. Air Force was also underway, and after receiving ammunition and food supplies, the 112th Regiment became a "small powerhouse" that the Japanese could not kill, and the 3rd Battalion defending the Lagasu Heights resisted the repeated attacks of 2,000 Japanese troops in one and a half brigades at the cost of almost zero casualties, and the Japanese suffered more than 800 casualties. After more than a month of hard fighting, it was impossible to annihilate 1 battalion of the Chinese army, the shell consumption was huge, there were many casualties, and the psychological shadow area of many Japanese troops could not be calculated, and they shouted "The Chinese army has received divine help and cannot be defeated!"
As long as the weather permits, the US C-47 transport planes are dispatched almost every day, and they can accurately drop supplies into the forest sky. There are all kinds of things that are airdropped: weapons and ammunition, food and medicine, cigarettes and sweets, etc.
There are many strange rocks and caves on the Lagasu Heights, which can not only effectively avoid Japanese shelling, but also be very conducive to their own concealment. Under the high ground, there are only a few small roads that can come up, which makes it difficult for the enemy's large forces to deploy, and they can only attack one by one, which is convenient for the Chinese army to block with dense firepower.
After Sun Liren led the reinforcements to arrive, he quickly ordered the whole line to attack. The first duel between the two sides was artillery, 1 mountain artillery battalion of the Indian army against 1 mountain artillery brigade of the Japanese army, and 12 75mm mountain guns against 12 75mm mountain guns. The mountain artillery battalion of the Indian army has undergone strict live-fire training, and its artillery fighting skills are first-class, and in the battle, the artillery shells are sufficient, so that the Japanese artillery has no power to parry, and one hour later, the Japanese artillery withdrew from the battlefield.
As soon as the Japanese artillery withdrew, the reinforcements used 75mm mm mountain guns and 81mm mortars to bombard the Japanese fortifications of the Bang Japanese army, and the death squad became a "death squad". The 114th Regiment was routed by the Japanese in just one day. On the 24th and 25th, the 114th Regiment successively broke through the three lines of defense of the Japanese army, first shaking the Japanese army on the bank of the Dalong River, and then capturing the strongest bridgehead position of the Japanese army, at the same time, the 112th Regiment also launched an attack on the enemy in front of it, forming a counter-encirclement of the Japanese army.
The battle lasted until December 28, when the Chinese troops stationed in India defeated the Japanese army, annihilated the 2nd Battalion of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army, and captured Xinbeiyan, Yubang and other places. When Sun Liren led people to pursue the Japanese army to the banks of the Dalong River, he found that the Japanese army threw notes along the way, which were full of Japanese pleadings: "We admit defeat, please don't chase anymore!" In the Battle of Yubang, General Sun Liren used roundabout tactics to outflank and fight fiercely for seven days, and the expeditionary force crossed the Dalong River, initially turning the tide of the war in northern Burma.
On December 28, 1943, the new 38th Division captured Yubang. In this battle, more than 400 enemies were annihilated, the commander of the 56th Wing of the Japanese Army was killed, 6 officers and 122 soldiers below the captain of the Japanese army were killed and wounded, and more than 30 people and a large number of military supplies were captured, laying the foundation for the victory of the Hukang Valley Campaign. The Chinese troops stationed in India suffered 73 casualties.
epilogue
After losing the superiority in weapons and equipment, the Japanese army became vulnerable! If there is love in the sky, the sky will grow old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life. The Japanese army continued to wage wars of aggression with all its might and was doomed to perish!