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At 12:30 p.m., the tank battalion of the Marine Corps successfully landed on the beach north of Mandalay. A Japanese infantry regiment that rushed over to defend was beaten back without any room to fight back.

Mandalay is a transit point for military supplies to northern and eastern Myanmar, and even to India. There must be a lot of cannons and anti-tank guns in the military warehouse.

However, when the Japanese used a large number of Type 37 75mm rapid-fire guns and even Type mm field guns as anti-tank guns, they discovered that no matter how large the number was, they could not cause any damage to the enemy's tanks.

The Type 63A amphibious tank has armor equivalent to 500 mm homogeneous steel. If it can be destroyed by these little things, it would be unworthy of the price of 20 per vehicle!

As the subsequent three Marine battalions also landed, the Marine Corps moved to the south of Mandalay. With more than 3 people, they certainly could not occupy such a large city. Moreover, the Japanese in the city had thousands of puppet troops claiming to be the Burmese Volunteers to help.

Their mission was to block the road south of the city to prevent the Japanese from escaping.

The fleet stopped bombarding the city and moved a little downstream to provide artillery support for the Marine Corps.

The maximum range of the destroyer's 130mm naval gun is 27 kilometers, with a firing rate of 30 rounds per minute.

The maximum range of the frigate's 100mm gun is 20 kilometers, with a firing rate of 10 rounds per minute.

The firepower of the two can cover an area of ​​500 square kilometers in the south of the city.

On October 10, with hundreds of tanks of Xu's army chasing them, the Japanese soldiers fleeing in Lashio only moved less than 11 kilometers after a night of raids.

The 5th Independent Tank Brigade and the 5th Tank Division, with a total of nearly 600 tanks, had more than half of them destroyed by the attack aircraft brigade and the armored regiment on the way to cover the main force.

The artillery units of the slowest-escaping divisions were almost completely wiped out, either directly destroyed by bombers or captured.

At dusk that day, Naka Yutaro gave another order to abandon Indo and let the two armies meet in Mandalay.

However, the troops fighting in India achieved great results, defeated the British-Indian coalition forces, and occupied the entire Imphal region. However, their eastern front was lost, and they became half an isolated army!

The Japanese 9th Air Division took advantage of this opportunity to escape to Imphal.

In the early morning of October 10, the 12th Mechanized Infantry Division took the lead in occupying Yinduo. After handing over the city defense to the 4st Motorized Infantry Division, it was led by the 101th Armored Regiment to pursue the Japanese 8th Division and 38th Division that fled south.

The battle lasted until October 10, when the Lashio and Indo Japanese troops fled into Mandalay one after another. Of the original 14 troops, less than 30 remained.

That night, under the leadership of Masamitsu Kawabe who had regained consciousness, the Japanese concentrated their firepower and tried to break out to the south.

Under the bombardment of warships and the counterattack of the Marine Corps Tank Battalion, the Japanese suffered more than 5000 casualties again.

In the early morning of October 10, Naka Yutaro committed suicide by seppuku, and Kawabe Shozo led the remaining troops to surrender, giving up their fearless resistance!

Regardless of whether he could break out or not, Kawabe Masamitsu knew that he was doomed, so he chose to surrender and temporarily save the lives of his soldiers.

The Japanese reinforcements from Mawlamyine finally arrived at Meiktila, 100 kilometers south of Mandalay, but it was too late and they could only stay there temporarily.

At noon that day, Xu Le arrived in Mandalay and announced the complete success of this "Lightning Operation".

Starting from the attack on "Guigai" on September 9, including the two sieges of Myitkyina by the remnants of the Japanese in northern Burma, a total of 29 Japanese were killed and 12 were captured. Except for the members of the Aviation Division, no Japanese officer escaped.

包括18师团、38师团、独立混成第15旅团、战车第5师团、独立战车第14旅团，以及第5飞行师团被全歼，鬼子其余部队均遭受大小不等的损失。

而徐家军第一军的死伤不足1000人，大部分是机步4师和摩步101师在顶着鬼子轰炸机进攻因多的时候损失的，几辆69式坦克、10多辆63式装甲车，以及10余辆轻型卡车被彻底摧毁！

Including several large military supply warehouses in Mandalay, countless weapons and ammunition were seized, including tens of thousands of trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, motorcycles, tractors, etc.

In addition, the Japanese looted more than 20 tons of gold, more than 80 tons of silver, more than 3 tons of iron ore, and a small amount of copper, aluminum and other metal mines that were not taken away.

The current identity of Xu's army is quite sensitive, so it is not convenient for Xu Le to report victory to the Tang Dynasty. However, there is no such thing as an impenetrable wall. Including the nearly 10 Yunnan civilian workers led by Zhu Xiaoping in the rear to assist in logistics and transportation, the total number of troops participating in the war from both sides is close to 50.

News of such a large-scale battle spread throughout the world in just a few days. Of course, the number of casualties of Xu's army announced to the public was more than 5, but the record of 1 to 6 was enough to make the world praise it.

As a result, the Soviet Union, England, Free France, Australia, Canada and other countries all sent commissioners to Mandalay.

Commander Jiang also secretly called Xu Le and Fang Yue, who was in charge of the battle command, to express his congratulations.

There is one thing that is intriguing. Among the many major countries, only the United States expressed verbal congratulations to Commander Jiang. It did not have any contact with Xu Le, let alone send people to Mandalay for exchanges.

Xu Le didn't care about these things and threw all diplomatic affairs to Wei Li, so that none of these foreign commissioners knew what Xu Le looked like.

Where is Xu Le?

He was as hands-off as ever, either pulling Wei Junjun to give him a back and shoulder massage, or on his way to exchange military merit points.

There was no need to arrange for anyone to count, Xu Le went directly to several large warehouses where the spoils were piled up.

"System, convert all weapons and other things that have an iron content of more than 50% into military merit points for me!"

This time, Xu Le held his head high, pointed one finger to the sky, the other to the ground, and stepped his right foot on a heavy machine gun, shouting out these words in a cocky voice.

This is the confidence. The materials seized this time alone are comparable to the total of all the materials seized in the past two years!

Faced with such a mixed volume, the system took a few seconds to give the result.

"Ding, exchange successful, congratulations to the host for obtaining 250 million military merit points!"

boom.....

As soon as the system finished speaking, Xu Le fell to the ground like a vicious dog pouncing on its prey.

Because the heavy machine gun under his feet disappeared, his body lost balance, and the energy he had accumulated before dissipated instantly.

"I was negligent this time. Let's try again next time!"

Next is the second warehouse, where another 230 million military merit points are obtained.

The third warehouse is where cannons and artillery shells are stored. There are nearly 200 brand-new cannons of various types. Although there are also many artillery shells, the cannons take up more space and cannot be stacked up. The total weight is not large, and only 120 million military merit points were exchanged.

The last few remaining warehouses were filled with daily necessities, including cotton-padded clothes, leather shoes, water bottles, helmets, canned food, etc. These were kept.

The above are just what the Japanese have here, and they should be planned to prepare for the future attack on India.