The feeling of the Chinese expeditionary force s defeat of the Savage Mountain

It can only be said that the weak brigade is tragic and strong, and the soldiers take obedience to military orders as their duty. No army would honor disobedience, but the aftermath is greater than the previous one.

This is also the reason why Du Yuming was not held accountable and Sun was not subject to military law.

Du Benzhi Savage Mountain died, tragic to death, because the domestic frontal war is becoming tighter, 100,000 expeditionary troops are also a sharp blade of the country. If General Du is asked to choose again, it is difficult to ensure that he will not go to Savage Mountain again. There is no difference between the defeat of the domestic war at that time, the expeditionary force returning to China to die, and going to India for three years to train for the country.

Fortunately, after the defeat of the Chinese battlefield and the relocation of the capital, it was supported until the moment when the expedition returned to the division, and Sun Liren's name went down in history. To resist the Japanese, Du is also loyal to the country and righteous for the nation.

Only Du was captured and lost his temper, and he was not on the list of loyalty, not as good as Huang Wei. The death of the expeditionary force, the soul of the son is a ghost!

Pipe hole view.

You can't blindly follow the orders of your superiors, you must have your own opinions in everything you do, like Savage Mountain, how many anti-Japanese heroes did not die on the battlefield, but died in Savage Mountain.

On the battlefield, there must not be a single mistake in intelligence work, otherwise many soldiers will be killed; Also, consider the next step from a holistic perspective, and consider every aspect clearly.

Countless elite units did not die at the guns of the enemy.

Instead, they died under the wrong decision.

Because the back road was cut off.

On April 26, 1942, the Japanese army arrived near Mandalay, the 66th Army reinforcements were not in time, the Japanese 56th Division took the opportunity to storm the position of the Eastern Front Expeditionary Force, Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying ordered to abandon Mandalay at 17 pm on April 27, and the troops moved north, but it was too late, and the Japanese army successively captured Tangji, Bamo, Lashio, Myitkyina and other placesCut off the rear of the 5th Army, and crossed the Sino-Burmese border, invaded the territory of Yunnan, China, and captured Wan Town, Longling and other places.

On the morning of May 8, 1942, the Japanese army captured Myitkyina, and Du Yuming retreated to China according to Jiang Zhongzheng's order on the 7th. Because Bamo, Myitkyina and other places had already been occupied by the Japanese army, the troops had to cross the railway and detour from the west to the dense forests of northern Myanmar to return home, and broke through the Japanese resistance many times on the way. On May 9, 1942, due to the discovery of Japanese troops in Jesha (also translated as Kasa), and the new 38th Division first went to Jesha to cover only one regiment, and the main forces of the new 38th Division and the new 22nd Division needed at least a day and a half to withdraw from the front line, Du Yuming believed that the Japanese army could encircle and annihilate the expeditionary force from the north and south, so he ordered the 93rd Division to cover on the right flank and occupy a covering position near Menggong, and at the same time ordered all units to return home by separate routes and find their own way to survive.

It can be seen that because the rear route of the Fifth Army was cut off, the Fifth Army retreated hastily, and was intercepted by the Japanese army on the way, so it had to disperse and break through from the Savage Mountain area.

Chang Kaishen had a face problem, and the fundamental reason why he couldn't pull down his face and retreated west to India was that he didn't trust the expeditionary force, and he was afraid that they would become British and American mercenaries.

The main reason for the defeat of the expeditionary force was that it was put on a line by the British army, and the British army retreated ahead of schedule without informing our army, resulting in the rout of our army. Second, there was Stilwell's command error. I recommend you to watch the documentary "An Inch of Rivers and Mountains and an Inch of Blood" filmed in Taiwan and "The Expedition of Seventy Years Ago" by Phoenix Satellite TV.

In the Burma battlefield, due to the ineffective fighting of the British army, the retreat was gradually broken, and the British army did not also go all out, which finally led to the failure of the Romance plan, and the British thought that there was no point in holding on to Mandalay, so they decided to abandon Burma and retreat to India. So what followed was the retreat of the Sino-British coalition forces. It also marked the first defeat in the Burma invasion operation.

The rear route of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was cut off by the Japanese army, and only broke through by the dividing road. Because the roads that can be walked are guarded by the Japanese army. The troops had no choice but to make their way through the wilderness, the forest, and the mud. The climate is hot and humid, hunger is unbearable, disease and cholera are spreading, and the troops are extremely heavy.

Since the Japanese had already occupied the route home, the retreat route diverged at this time. Because according to the order of General Stilwell, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the whole army retreated to India, where the British army was in the rear. However, China's supreme commander, Du Yuming, was unwilling, and Du Yuming decided to carry out Chiang Kai-shek's order to bring this elite Chinese force back to China.

However, the route back to China was blocked by the Japanese army, so if you want to return home, you can only venture through the Savage Mountain.

The Japanese army captured Mandalay, the expeditionary force was defeated, Chiang Kai-shek asked Du Yuming to bring the expeditionary force back to China, Myitkyina on the Yunnan-Burma road has been occupied by the Japanese army, and can only cross the Savage Mountain back to Yunnan.

1. At that time, after Lashio and Myitkyina were occupied by the Japanese army one after another, the road for the Chinese expeditionary force to return to China was cut off, Chiang Kai-shek asked Du Yuming to bring the expeditionary force back to China, Du Yuming complied with the order, led the 5th Army and the 6th Army to return to China over the primeval forest Savage Mountain, the loss was huge, there is a figure that only 8,000 out of 40,000 people entered the mountain.

2. It was Du Yuming's decision to go to Savage Mountain. He was arguably the ultimate fan of Chiang Kai-shek, and before leaving the country, Chiang Kai-shek told him to bring back the 5th Army regardless of success or failure. So he wanted to return to China. Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang chose a safer India.

3. Savage Mountain is located at the junction of China, India and Myanmar, stretching for thousands of miles, more than 200 kilometers deep, the trees on the mountain cover the sky, there is no day all the year round, there are groups of fierce beasts, locusts are everywhere, only the Cochin people who are called "savages" haunt it, and the local people call this uninhabited area for hundreds of miles collectively as Savage Mountain.

4. Due to the large number of Japanese troops guarding the return route, this unit was finally rerouted to India. Du Yuming, who had only half a life left, led his direct troops and Liao Yaoxiang's new 22nd Division to the vicinity of Ledo in Assam in northeastern India and was finally rescued, and the new 22nd Division had only 3,000 people left from the 9,000 people when it entered Burma, and the number of people on the way to retreat was more than twice as many as the combat attrition. The proportion of losses of the troops directly under the 5th Army was also comparable.

In fact, Du Yuming's troops first went to Myitkyina, and then after the Japanese army occupied Myitkyina, with the approval of Lao Chiang, they turned to India.

Most of the troops who walked the Savage Mountain were scattered troops such as the Sixth Army.

Although there is no enemy in the savage mountain, but there are mosquitoes everywhere, the soldiers have to endure the bite of mosquitoes, as well as the ravages of the plague, the natural environment is also very bad, the torrential rain has been non-stop, there is no food and drink and no equipment, but the troops have passed through the savage area after more than 110 days, or successfully crossed the savage area and reached the border of China.

The expeditionary force's journey was very arduous, and when passing through the Savage Mountain, the Savage Mountain was very treacherous, and they were easy to get lost in the mountain, resulting in a lack of water and food, and they could only eat the roots of wild fruit trees to sustain their lives.

It can be said that it is very dangerous. Because the environment of Savage Mountain is too harsh, the expeditionary force paid a lot of sacrifices when crossing Savage Mountain.