After weighing the pros and cons, Du Yuming finally chose to bypass Myitkyina and march towards northern Myanmar.

Du Yuming had Du Yuming's consideration. This consideration was as mentioned before. The expeditionary army had no supplies, and the bullets and shells were fired less than one round. It was difficult to get supplies from Myitkyina when the Japanese army occupied Myitkyina first. Even if they snatch Myitkyina from the Japanese army, it would be an empty city, so he did not even send scouts.

But objectively speaking, Du Yuming still lacks the demeanor of a general.

It would be understandable if he did not choose to go to India before, when Myitkyina was not occupied by the Japanese army. But now, Myitkyina has been occupied by the Japanese army, and the expeditionary army will have only a dead end to the north. Even if he is concerned about the lives of the soldiers, he should choose to enter India. The same is true with Chiang Kai-shek's orders... This is not only a problem that the general will not be able to accept foreign military orders, but Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying have also repeatedly ordered the expeditionary army to enter India. They are also Du Yuming's ups, and their orders are also the same. Moreover, Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying were appointed by Chiang Kai-shek himself, so entering India is not considered disobedience.

But Du Yuming couldn't swallow this and could not fall into that face, so he chose to go one way to the dark.

Of course, Du Yuming did not know that it was not the Japanese army that occupied Myitkyina but the Chinese army, and it was a well-equipped engineer regiment with a large amount of supplies and supplies.

At this time, the Engineering Corps did not know that Du Yuming had made the decision to bypass Myitkyina. On the one hand, it was because the Engineering Corps could not contact the Fifth Army without a radio station. On the other hand, it was because Wang Mazi always remembered the telegram, thinking that the main force of the Fifth Army was on the way to Myitkyina, so he organized defense in Myitkyina with confidence and waited for the arrival of the main force.

The Japanese army settled down after launching two more charges.

There are several main reasons for this:

One was that the Japanese army advanced from Yangon and fought to Myitkyist. When the logistics supply line had crossed nearly 2,000 kilometers (Note: the Yangmi Railway was 1,784 kilometers long). Such a long supply line and the highway was also stagnant because of the poor combat conditions, the railway was bombarded by the Japanese fighter jets all the way. So the 33rd Division was still unable to succeed until the war was fought.

The other is that the Japanese army could not invest much troops in Myitkyina... At this time, the Japanese army could be said to have occupied most of Myanmar, and the large number of occupied areas meant that the troops were dispersed. In addition, they had to pursue the retreating British and Chinese troops in other directions everywhere. Therefore, the troops were seriously insufficient.

More importantly, at this time, the Japanese army's main strategic goal in the direction of Myanmar had been achieved... Cut off the China-Myanmar Highway and stabbed it from behind along the China-Myanmar Highway, which was completed when the Lashio occupied.

Therefore, the Japanese commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Front, Kawabian, considered: the most important thing at present is the direction of western Yunnan in China and the direction of Impal in India.

In the western direction of China Yunnan, it is to cooperate with the Japanese army on the front to attack China on both sides, in order to quickly defeat the Chinese army and pull a large number of troops out of the quagmire of China.

In the direction of India's Impal...that is the next strategic goal of the Japanese army. In fact, the Japanese army had long sent a large number of Japanese plainclothes to India.

The situation in India and Myanmar is somewhat similar. Both are British colonies, both of which are oppressed and enslaved by the British, and they are dissatisfied with the British, and they all have religious beliefs. They both have independent consciousness and power. These are places where the Japanese army can use them.

It is obvious that the Japanese army still wanted to deceive, use the Burmese people and use the Indians, and then it was possible to successfully conquer India and march into the Middle East, where oil was everywhere, and meet with the Germans.

Of course, one thing the Japanese army did not expect was that... Indians did not have as strong national consciousness as Burmese.

Most Indians believe in Hinduism, and Hinduism developed after the Aryan invasion of India. In fact, the ruling class hopes that Indians will be willing to be enslaved and ruled, so they divided each caste and promoted a "obedience". This made Indians believe that everything was arranged by God, and they would enjoy it if they suffer in this life and do not fight. If they resist, they may disrupt God's arrangements so that they cannot enjoy their happiness in the next life.

Under the influence of this idea, India also obeyed the rule of the British, and later even took white people as the pride in doing things for them. Therefore, the resistance forces who fought for independence did not receive support from the people and did not become popular.

Similarly, although the Japanese army was ready to incite when attacking India, they did not achieve the effect of responding to the rise of all places like Myanmar... The Indians' attitude was that you beat you, and I lived my life. Whether the British or Japanese ruled India did not seem to have much to do with them.

This is one of the reasons for the defeat of the Battle of Impal in history, which was launched by the Japanese army in 44 years, or three years later... The Japanese siege of Impal was actually collapsed under famine and epidemics. If the Indians also supported independence as "passionately" like the Burmese people, the British and Indian divisions would not fight to the death in Impal. The Indian people should also send food to the Japanese army besieging Impal, and India should also take advantage of the situation to set off a wave of supporting Japan and resisting Britain.

But none of this happened.

This fully demonstrates that everything has its good side and its bad side... National consciousness may be good, and patriotism is also right, but sometimes this emotion is easily exploited. For example, the Burmese people were sold and they still cost money for the Japanese army. In contrast, India has a more "obedience" consciousness in this direction, but instead thwarted the Japanese army's conspiracy.

Of course, these are all later stories.

At this time, the riverside Zheng San set his sights on Impal, the gateway to the Myanmar-Indian border. He hoped to take advantage of the British army that had not yet gained a foothold in Impal, and to enter India like a broken foot.

As for the Myitkyina... although it would make the Japanese army uncomfortable when it suppressed northern Myanmar. However, it neither blocked the Japanese army's way to Yunnan, nor did it block the way to India. More than 3,000 Chinese troops were so insignificant, so it had little impact on the Japanese army's strategic forces.

Kawabian Masahisa believed that as long as the Japanese army could take over China's western Yunnan and India's Impala, then Myitkyina would be surrounded by the Japanese army from a large scale, which would be isolated from India and China. Even if the Chinese army in Myitkyina had many supplies left by the British army, it would be empty, and in the end it would be the end of surrendering without ammunition and food.
Chapter completed!