The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

Starting on July 22, bloody and brutal street fighting began.

The lives of the indigenous guerrillas were thrown into the city as if they were free.

The modified self-propelled artillery equipped with a 155mm large barrel drove directly into the city with the help of the thick front armor of the M4A3 and the 50mm thick gun shield. At a very close distance, it directly fired and blasted the barricades built by the Japanese and the garrisoned buildings under the Japanese firepower.

Once the Japanese's tricky firepower points were sent flying by 155mm grenades, the indigenous guerrillas, equipped with submachine guns and grenades, would be driven into an assault, fighting the Japanese street by street, building by building. (Each indigenous person had five 30-round magazines, and could only retreat if they could finish them alive.)

The old Japanese soldier Matsuyama Yuzo was completely convinced this time.

In the frontal offensive and defensive battle, the three lines of defense occupied by more than 20,000 Japanese devils and two divisions of puppet troops were broken through by Zhang Chi with his ultimate firepower and armor advantages.

No Japanese plane with the red "Hinomaru" painted in the sky could survive for more than half an hour over the Myitkyina battlefield.

Even in the street fighting where firepower was difficult to exert, the driven indigenous guerrillas and the 155mm cannon barrels firing at close range taught Matsuyama Yuzo a good lesson.

Unlike Zhang Chi's previous surprise attacks and night raids, this time the Japanese were completely and thoroughly crushed by Zhang Chi in all aspects.

"Could it be that Myitkyina is where I will be buried?"

In the underground command post, the haggard Lieutenant General Matsuyama Yuzo was wiping his sword with a white cloth while talking to himself.

Born in 89 into a landlord family in Aomori Prefecture, he is now 54 years old with a head full of white hair and a haggard face.

Think about it, Matsuyama Yuzo, a graduate of the 22nd class of the Army Military Academy, who never attended Army University. He relied entirely on his own efforts to climb up step by step from a second lieutenant to the position of lieutenant general and division commander. Is he going to be loyal to His Majesty Tianhuang today?

The siege of Myitkyina had been going on for nearly 10 days. With their retreat cut off, the Japanese in the city were now running low on ammunition. Apart from the occasional airdrops from transport planes that risked their lives to arrive, they had no additional supplies.

Now Myitkyina City is surrounded and the way of survival has been cut off.

No matter how many telegrams for help he ordered the signalmen to send, the only reply he received was: hold on, there will be a way.

The reinforcements that were supposed to come from thousands of miles away did not appear. Matsuyama Yuzo knew very well that the final moment was approaching.

After wiping the saber clean until it was spotless and shiny enough to reflect his own reflection, Matsuyama Yuzo unbuttoned his shirt.

Although the enemy troops were still far away from here according to the sound of gunfire and artillery, it was the first time for Matsuyama Yuzo to do seppuku, so he had to rehearse it.

He stroked his belly, imagining how he would cut it.

However, the older people get, the more afraid they are of pain.

Matsuyama Yuzo gestured with the saber for a few times and suddenly thought that a cesarean section would be very painful. Should he just forget about it?

So he took out his service pistol again, took out the oil bottle and brush, disassembled the Nambu Type 14 pistol, cleaned it carefully, and prepared to commit suicide by shooting himself when the situation became hopeless.

Compared to seppuku, pulling the trigger is indeed a more convenient, painless and humane method.

Matsuyama Yuzo, the old Japanese soldier who once commanded the 56th Division to attack western Yunnan and wantonly burned, killed and buried civilians in the Tengchong County area, finally felt afraid when it was his turn.

He pressed the bullets one by one into the magazine, inserted it into the magazine well of the pistol, sighed, and put it in his arms.

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7月24日，近卫第 2 师团剩余部队登陆仰光港，同时第 55 师团从暹罗边境开始向北运动，曼谷的 25 师团则北上填补 55 师团的空缺。

On the same day, the order to promote Matsuyama Yuzo to the rank of general was also issued.

The Japanese generally have a tradition of promoting generals who died in battle by one level. Now the headquarters has promoted Matsuyama Yuzo, who is still resisting, with a clear meaning - you must not surrender, it is best to commit suicide, and if not, dying in battle is fine.

On July 25, after suffering nearly 7 casualties, the indigenous guerrillas finally wiped out most of the Japanese in the city.

After killing nearly 3 devils (including devil immigrants who were forcibly conscripted into the army later), and wiping out most of the indigenous guerrillas, Zhang Chi was in a good mood as he had solved two problems.

On that day, both infantry columns and the accelerated column entered the city. In the end, the next squad of soldiers from a company of the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Column won the first prize.

They caught Matsuyama Yuzo in the underground headquarters, who was holding the Nambu 14 and was hesitating whether to commit suicide.

The dejected Matsuyama Yuzo was forced out of the ground with his hands handcuffed behind his back. The moment he stepped onto the surface, the war photographer that Zhang Chi had arranged in advance took a picture with his camera.

At the same time, another major general who led the Pegu Independent Garrison Brigade was also killed by a grenade in an unnamed barricade.

The good news of capturing Myitkyina City, capturing alive a Japanese lieutenant general division commander, and killing a major general brigade commander of an independent brigade brought a perfect end to this battle that lasted for nearly half a month.

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In the end, after paying the price of nearly 4000 casualties and a number of losses in tanks, artillery and other weapons, Zhang Chi's troops wiped out a total of nearly 3 Japanese heavy troops in Myitkyina City, and also killed nearly 4000 Japanese reinforcements and about 700 Japanese paratroopers.

At the same time, the allied indigenous guerrillas lost more than 10,000 people (Zhang Chi tearfully changed the number of nearly 10,000 in the report to more than 10,000), more than 10,000 people from two divisions of Aung San’s puppet army were captured, and the rest were either killed in battle or fled.

"Okay, okay, as long as they are not Qian people, the more of these guys die, the better." Zhang Chi put down the battle summary report he had polished and focused his attention on the system in his mind again.

[Congratulations to the host's soldiers for killing an enemy major general. Reward the host with a copy of the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook"]

[Congratulations to the host's soldiers for killing an enemy lieutenant general. Reward the host with five industrial exchange coupons.]

This system's kill prompt only shows the military rank, not the name.

The report Zhang Chi received from his subordinates said that a brigade commander, a major general, was killed and a division commander, a lieutenant general, was captured alive.

So when Zhang Chi saw these two messages from the system, his first reaction was that one of his subordinates was itching to kill Matsuyama Yuzo for revenge.

(The 56th Division did not do well in western Yunnan. Today, there are still kneeling statues of Japanese pirates and memorial sculptures and cemeteries of child soldiers in Tengchong.)

However, when he discovered that Matsuyama Yuzo was still singing tears behind bars in prison, and thought of Hill promoting the besieged Paulus to marshal, Zhang Chi immediately understood what was going on.

The major general who was killed was the division commander of the Aung San puppet army.

The lieutenant general who was killed was the brigade commander of major general and was promoted one level ahead of time.