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The Wanli Banner was dazzling, and Wang Shi left the island to destroy it. Yang Whip pointed to the flowers as promised, and Zhuge's predecessor came again.
Riding horses and running cars to walk the eight wildernesses, expedition to the Qin Emperor. Clarify the universe Ann Li Shu, first pull the longbow to shoot the sunset.
This is one of the "Seven Absolute Expeditions" written by Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division of the 5th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to Burma, on the way to Burma, expressing the pride and ambition of the Nationalist army to fight in Burma and fight against the Japanese Kou.
Let us travel through the tunnel of time to return to the war-torn 1942, when the Pacific War had broken out, the Japanese army invaded Southeast Asia, and pointed the spearhead at Burma, although Burma is a British colony, but it is the national government's main artery of transportation between China and Burma, after communicating with Britain and the United States, the National Government's 100,000 troops went to Burma to fight.
In fact, as early as 1941, the National Government made preparations, for which the National Government dispatched 100,000 elite troops to form the Chinese Expeditionary Force to fight in Burma, the unit is mainly composed of 3 corps, namely the 5th Army, the 6th Army and the 66th Army, in order to distinguish it from the later Chinese Expeditionary Force, this unit is known as the First Road of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. And these three armies were all very strong in the Kuomintang army at that time. Among them, the 5th Army is the first mechanized army of the Chinese army, the strongest combat force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the 5th Army is under the jurisdiction of:
The 200th Division, with more than 9,000 people in the division, was the commander of the division, Dai Anlan;
The newly organized 22nd Division, with more than 10,000 people in the whole division, and the division commander Liao Yaoxiang;
The 96th Division, with more than 9,800 people in the division, was the commander of the division, Yu Shao;
In addition, there are guerrilla detachments, engineer regiments, armored regiments, artillery regiments and other units, totaling more than 42,000 people. The 5th Army was the main combat force of the First Route Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the essence of the Kuomintang army, and Chiang Kai-shek chose his right-hand man Du Yuming for its commander.
Du Yuming was born in 1904, Ziguangting, a native of Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, received a good education from an early age, entered the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in June 1924, and after graduation, he first appeared in the National Revolutionary Army's Eastern Crusade against Chen Jiongming, and gradually became Chiang Kai-shek's favorite general.
In 1937, the Nationalist government established the first tank regiment, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Du Yuming as the regimental commander, and later on the basis of this regiment gradually expanded and upgraded to a division and army structure, the 5th Army under the training of Du Yuming, became one of the strongest fighting forces of the National Revolutionary Army at that time, in the 5th Army, especially the 200th Division had the strongest combat effectiveness, with the more advanced German and Soviet equipment, armored vehicles and artillery at that time. As far as the advanced degree of these equipment is concerned, it is no less than the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army, and even stronger.
As we all know, in World War II, the Japanese army's naval strength is relatively strong, but as far as the army weapons and equipment are concerned, there is still a big gap between Soviet equipment and German equipment, taking tanks as an example, in the Battle of Nomenkan in 1939, the Japanese tanks and Soviet tanks were dueled, and the result was completely abused by Soviet tanks.
From December 18 to 31, 1939, in the Battle of Guinan between the Kuomintang army and the Japanese army, Du Yuming led the 5th Army to participate in the battle, and fought fiercely with the Japanese 5th Division regiment that was firmly defending Kunlun Pass and Pass, and the 5th Division regiment was the first-class elite mechanized unit of the Japanese Army, known as the "Steel Army". He participated in the battles of Nankou, Xinkou, Pingxingguan, Taiyuan, Shanghai, Taierzhuang, Guangzhou and other battles, and repeatedly served as the main offensive task. Seishiro Sakagaki was originally the commander of the division, and after he was promoted to chief of the general staff of the Chinese Dispatch Army, the division commander was succeeded by Lieutenant General Jun Imamura. The 5th Division had jurisdiction over: the 9th Brigade Regiment, Brigade Commander and Major General Chuanyuan Seven, the 21st Brigade Regiment, Brigade Commander Major General Masao Nakamura, Taiwan Mixed Brigade, Brigade Commander Major General Shiota Dingqi.
In this battle, the 5th Division was also supported by Japanese air power, but it was in this situation that the 5th Army led by Du Yuming annihilated more than 5,000 Japanese troops and killed Major General Masao Nakamura, the commander of the Japanese 21st Brigade Regiment, who had this account in his diary before his death:
The reason why the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Imperial Army won the title of "Steel Army" in the Russo-Japanese War was because our tenacity defeated the tenacity of the Russians. But, in Kunlun (Guan), we should admit that I met an army stronger than the Russian army. ”
Nakamura Masao's lament of having to submit to defeat was spread by the Chinese and foreign news media, which made Du Yuming and the 5th Army under his command famous, and Du Yuming was also known as a famous anti-Japanese general. Therefore, when Chiang Kai-shek decided to form the Chinese Expeditionary Force, in order to show the Americans and the British the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, he decided to include the 5th Army.
The Chinese Expeditionary Force totaled about 100,000 people, carrying a lot of heavy weapons, plus the British army and the army it controlled, the total strength of about 200,000 people, while the Japanese army only used 4 divisions and regiments of more than 90,000 troops, and heavy equipment is not much, but the Japanese army in less than 4 months to defeat nearly 200,000 Chinese and British troops, and all the way followed the defeated Chinese army from Burma into China, occupying a large area of land west of the Nu River, so that Yunnan, which was originally the rear of the War of Resistance, suddenly became the forefront of the war.
After the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma, it only fought for two months, from February 16 to May 3, 1942, but suffered heavy losses, only 40,000 of the 100,000 people remained, of the more than 60,000 lost, only more than 7,300 people were killed or wounded in the battle, most of whom were killed or wounded in the rout. Among them, the 5th Army suffered the heaviest losses, and all this was related to Du Yuming.
After the 5th Army entered Burma in March 1942, due to british treachery, as well as the unwillingness of the 6th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to fight hard, the commander of the Expeditionary Force Luo Zhuoying's command mistakes, etc., the 5th Army was suddenly in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army, at this critical moment, Du Yuming made two decisions:
1. Disperse the troops to break through.
2. He led the newly formed 22nd Division, the direct subordinate units of the 5th Army, and the Railway Corps, and a total of more than 16,000 people returned to the country after crossing the mountain.
It should be said that these two decisions are not only wrong, but also fatal. As far as the situation at that time was concerned, although the Japanese army had a closed encirclement posture, the encirclement of the Japanese army was not consolidated, and the Japanese army was a long-distance attack, without many heavy weapons, and Du Yuming's 5th Army mechanized unit, its firepower and mobility were much stronger than the Japanese army, if Du Yuming concentrated the strength of the 5th Army, it was entirely possible to rush out, the Japanese army was difficult to annihilate, the various units dispersed the breakthrough, dispersed the strength, and gave the Japanese army the opportunity to divide the encirclement and annihilation.
On the other hand, the 5th Army was a mechanized unit with a lot of heavy equipment, which required good road traffic to march, but Du Yu tried to cross the Savage Mountain without roads to return to China, which was a decision against military common sense, and the fundamental reason was that he panicked in danger. Due to Du Yuming's wrong decision, the 5th Army suffered heavy losses.
Before the 200th Division went abroad, 9,000 people, in the Second World War in Tonggu and Dongzhi, only 1,300 casualties were inflicted in the face of the siege of the strong enemy, but in the retreat and breakthrough, more than 3,200 people were killed and starved to death, all heavy equipment was lost, only more than 4,000 people returned to China, the division commander Dai Anlan was sacrificed, and a regimental commander and a deputy regimental commander were also sacrificed.
Yu Shao's 96th Division, with 9,863 men fighting abroad, was only more than 3,000 people left after returning to China, and all heavy equipment was lost.
More than 16,000 people led by Du Yuming returned to China, and only more than 4,000 people returned to China, and all heavy equipment was lost.
Overall calculations, the 5th Army before the battle of more than 42,000 people, 5 months later only more than 10,000 people, losses as high as 3/4, heavy equipment losses, the 5th Army's fiasco, as the commander of Du Yuming has an unshirkable responsibility.
Why did Du Yuming, who had a heavy army in his hands, return in a big defeat? What is Du Yuming's combat command level? In this regard, Su Yu, commander of our army, made a pertinent evaluation of Du Yuming after his capture:
"Du Yuming can only win the battle, not lose the battle; he can only fight under favorable conditions, not under unfavorable conditions."
Su Yu pointed out the reason for Du Yuming's defeat in one sentence, in fact, this is not only Du Yuming's problem, but also the problem of the generals at all levels of the Kuomintang army; on the other hand, the generals of our army have all developed from the extremely arduous guerrilla war, and the troops often fight only a few hundred, or even dozens, but still insist on fighting, and the commanders of our army who have been tempered in the difficult and difficult dangerous situation have experienced too many dangerous situations and dangerous situations, so their hearts are very strong, and even the most difficult situation can be calmly coped with. Su Yu, who is also known as the god of war, is not afraid of danger in the face of danger and calmly copes with it.
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