The more difficult part of this is the mines laid down by the Japanese army in the river and the wooden stakes, but these did not cause too much trouble to the Chinese army, because the Chinese Expeditionary Force had diving suits.

Diving suits were originally not equipped with Chinese troops, but there were in Sherman tanks. The reason was that tanks often had to wade across the river during battle and prepare several diving suits to reconnaissance the river, such as finding out whether there were mines laid by enemies in the river, or whether there was mud at the bottom of the river that would trap the tank, etc.

So the Japanese mines were not a problem. Of course, the Chinese army had no experience in eliminating mines, so they simply installed bombs on the mines and detonated them. The same method was used to deal with wooden piles, and explosives were installed one by one at the roots and fuses. Then, with a few "booms", the obstacles used by the Japanese army to block the river were quickly cleared.

After the obstacle was cleared, hundreds of ships of all sizes and small ships from the New First Division were sailing down the Irrawaddy River. Because they were moving in the dark and the Japanese army was still fighting fiercely with the Chinese army, the Japanese army could not even find that there was a fleet passing through their defense.

At this time, Shinichi Tanaka was still reporting to Masato Honda: "Commander, we are attacked by the Chinese army fiercely, and I am afraid we will not be able to defend it!"

"What are you talking about?" Honda Masato replied: "Not long ago, you told me confidently that I would definitely be able to block the attack of the Chinese army. Now I say I can't defend it anymore?"

"Hisser Commander!" Tanaka Shinichi replied: "The Chinese army suddenly appeared behind our army... Although they did not attack us, they blew up the roads and bridges and organized defenses behind us. We were surrounded! We could no longer defend as planned!"

"What?" Masato Honda was shocked when he heard this: "How did the Chinese army run to your rear?"

"I... don't know the situation!" Tanaka Shinichi replied: "Maybe it was interlude, maybe it was airborne, which put us in a full passive state. Our supplies were completely cut off. If we continue like this, the 18th Division would have only one dead end!"

After thinking about it, Honda Masato responded: "I will try my best to send reinforcements to you. If it really doesn't work, I must retreat to the jungle so that the Chinese army cannot move forward with confidence! You should be clear. You cannot let the Chinese army march straight into Yangon!"

"Yes!" Tanaka Shin replied.

Honda Masato just put down the microphone and then hung up the phone to Shinzo, Kawabang.

As soon as Kawabian Zhengsan was lying down, he was woken up by the ringing phone. After hearing this bad news, Kawabian Zhengsan couldn't help but curse: "Bastard, what's going on with the 18th Division? Isn't it the elite of the Imperial Army? Why is it so vulnerable in front of the Chinese army? Even if the Chinese army appears in the rear, I don't know how the Chinese army appears!"

"Yes!" Honda Masato could only respond like this, but in fact what he was thinking was... The Chinese army in Myanmar is not an ordinary Chinese army? Hakabianjun, aren't you also in chaos under the attack of the Chinese army?!

After thinking about it, Kawabian Zhengsan ordered: "Anyway, I must block the attack of the Chinese army. I will immediately dispatch the Second Division to go forward to defend! Before the Second Division is ready for defense, you must never take a step back!"

"yes!"

According to common sense, Zheng San’s idea and command of the riverside are correct, because the terrain of Myanmar is complex in northern Myanmar and central Myanmar, while southern Myanmar is a plain suitable for mechanized troops to fight.

In the past, the Japanese army was more willing to choose to fight against the Chinese army in southern Myanmar. This was because at that time, the Japanese army's equipment, especially mechanized equipment, was much better than the Chinese army, so the decisive battle on the plains had more advantages and more severe blows to the Chinese army.

But now, the Chinese army is full of American equipment, and the tanks are also American tanks. Sherman tanks are even the Japanese tanks that cannot be used to fight against tanks that do not have the right equipment, and the cooperation of US aircraft is also the Japanese army. Therefore, the Japanese army will never hope to fight against the Chinese army on the plains.

Therefore, the Japanese army had only one choice to block the Chinese army and ensure the security of Yangon, that is, to use complex terrain to block the Chinese army in Myanmar and buy time for Yangon or it can be said to be for the 15th Army to capture Impal.

Thinking of this, Zheng San from Hebian did not hesitate and immediately ordered the 29th and 30th Regiments of the Second Division to rush to the south of Tonggu overnight to build a defense line along the highway to block the Chinese army.

The Second Division had four infantry regiments, and the Hebian Zhengsan sent two infantry regiments in one breath, which also shows his fear of the Chinese army.

But this time his approach was wrong, and he was a big mistake.

Because the Chinese army did not intersperse along the interspersion route of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army in the first Myanmar Battle, as Hebian imagined, but used the Irrawaddy River to intersperse. Therefore, the mobilization made by the Hebian Army was actually to further air the Yangon troops and expose it to the Chinese army's military.

This also illustrates the importance of intelligence on the battlefield from another aspect.

Objectively speaking, at this time, Masahiro, the riverside was in chaos under the attack of the Chinese army as Honda Masato thought. On the other hand, it was because the Japanese army was accustomed to interspersing on land. Under the limitations of this habitual thinking, he never expected that the Chinese army would intersperse along the Irrawaddy River.

What's worse is that the Japanese army was empty at this time... To be precise, the Japanese army had a lot of troops at this time, with more than 200,000 troops from ten divisions, which was several times more powerful than the first Myanmar Battle.

However, the Japanese army's troops were mainly distributed on the periphery. Three divisions were used to attack Impal, one division was used as a reserve for attack Impal, two divisions were used in western Yunnan and northern Myanmar, and three divisions also included the second division to defend against possible British naval landings. There was only one division in Myanmar. To be precise, this was not a division, but a mixed brigade.

The so-called mixed brigade is a kind of organization of the Japanese army. It is not affiliated with any division. It is mainly a unit in order to adapt to certain special tasks on the battlefield, such as public security in the occupied areas, guards and guerrillas fighting, so it was organized into a unit with a large number of 5,000 people, and also has artillery, engineers and other units with certain combat effectiveness, but neither weapons, equipment nor combat effectiveness can be compared with regular troops. Its mission determines that the nature of this unit is a static garrison in the occupied area.
Chapter completed!