On the afternoon of January 28, the interim headquarters of the 15th Japanese Army.

After three days of pre-war preparations, the Guards Division and the 33rd Division had built a simple fortification on the east bank of the Salwin River and had also created enough rafts across the river.

Whether it was the 55th Division, which was severely damaged, or the Guards Division and the 33rd Division, which were lightly damaged in the jungle area, were replenished and restored their vitality.

The 15th Army had more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers, and now they are full of morale. They are full of energy from top to bottom. They dream of dreaming that they can break through the defense line of the Salwen River in one go, capture Maudanmian, Yangon, Bosheng, and Bogu, and then crush and annihilate the Chinese Expeditionary Force and occupy the entire Myanmar.

It was originally planned to launch an official attack on Maudmian early this morning and launch a tentative attack on the west bank of the Salwin River.

This was the first formal large-scale battle of the 15th Army against the Salwin River defense line in Myanmar. Iida Shojiro was both nervous and excited, and summoned a group of senior Japanese generals and staff members to a meeting to discuss.

Yoshijiro Iida took the lead in asking: "Kun Hanagu, what is the situation in Myanmar now?"

Hana Tani Taro replied: "At present, the imperial agents and various parties in Myanmar have organized more than 20 demonstrations and riots of varying scale in Yangon, Bogu, Bosheng, Babang, Monbon, etc., killing at least 90 Chinese soldiers and Chinese overseas Chinese.

Although we were extremely cruelly suppressed and suffered considerable casualties, it triggered greater national hatred among the natives of Myanmar and restrained the Chinese military power of no less than 10,000 people.

Nowadays, there is a turmoil in Myanmar and panic in people. It is like a volcano that is about to completely erupt!”

After a pause, Taro Hanaya said excitedly: "Through publicity and agitation, more and more Burmese natives are willing to join us, fight side by side with the Great Japanese Empire, overthrow the colonial government and eliminate the Chinese invaders!"

Miyazawa responded excitedly: "Yes, our Guard Division has been recruited at present. More than 4,500 Burmese militias can be organized into a powerful enough cannon fodder force!"

Taro Hanaya then said: "In addition, we have also planted several elite teams that can play an important role at critical moments."

"Yo Xi! Beautiful work! Although the natives of Myanmar have low combat power and are extremely embarrassing to use, they are the owners of this land after all. Some things they can do can really achieve twice the result with half the effort!"

Iida Xiangjiro nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Haruki Iasyama and said, "Are the 15th Army units ready for battle?"

"Hayi!"

Haruki Isayama said: "The heavy equipment troops have all arrived on the east bank of the Salwin River, and the supplementary divisions departing from Bangkok have also arrived at their destination, and the troops have completed the replenishment of troops!

Please rest assured that all troops are ready for combat and can launch a general attack on Maudan and cross the river at any time!"

After a pause, Haruki Isayama said confidently: "The Guard Division is the most elite division in the Great Japanese Empire. This time, the main attack on Maudami is bound to win. As long as the commander gives the order, the Great Japanese Imperial Army will definitely be determined by a battle!"

The Japanese military government has taken special attention and attached great importance to the war in Myanmar from the beginning. It not only sent the strongest guard division, but also prepared a division supplementary force in Thailand early.

The Guards Division was formed in 1891 and was one of the seven earliest divisions established in Japan and one of the 17 permanent divisions of the A-type divisions.

The Guard Division is actually the Imperial Guard of the Japanese Emperor and has long been responsible for the security guards of the palace, so the Guard Division has been stationed in Tokyo for a long time.

At the end of 1939, the Guard Mixed Brigade formed a Guard Mixed Brigade to arrive in the South China battlefield. In July 1940, the main body of the Guard Division landed in Qinzhou Bay and was ranked in the 22nd Army. The Guard Mixed Brigade returned to the construction.

According to the standards of the Japanese army, the total strength of a Class A Division is more than 27,000 people and 8 registrars are under its jurisdiction. It is divided into 4 infantry registrars and independent cavalry, artillery, engineers and transport registrars. This is the standard for Class A Division.

As for the Class B and Class C divisions, there are even only 7 or 6 regiments, with only more than 20,000 troops.

As for the Guards Division, it is a giant. The Guards Division has 14 corpses. In addition to 4 infantry corpses, there are two cavalry and artillery corpses, and also has its own air defense and communications units.

The Guards Division not only has more than 50,000 troops, but also has excellent weapons and equipment, but recently it has specially added an enhanced chariot corps, with more than 120 tanks and chariots of various types.

"Yoxi!"

Iida Yoshiro nodded and then asked, "Isaiyama, how are the contact between the Air Force and the Navy?"

Although today was just a tentative attack rather than launching a full-scale attack directly, Yoshijiro Iida attached great importance to it and regarded this battle as the first battle between the 15th Army and the Chinese Expeditionary Force!

Haruki Isayama replied: "It has been contacted and will arrive on time at around 5:30 in the morning tomorrow to provide powerful fire support!

Another good news is that the war between the 25th Army has ended and is currently mobilizing the 5th Division and is about to head north to attack Myanmar!”

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In order to achieve a "good start", the old Japanese devils such as Iida Sojiro, Ishiyama Haruki, Miyazawa Aki, Hanaya Taro and others discussed and deduced it for an afternoon. It was not enough. After the gathering was dark, they still fought at night and worked hard until the early morning, and then they could barely fall asleep.

Time flies, and it is five o'clock in the morning on January 29th.

When a ray of morning light shone on his face through the window and felt the obvious light, Iida Xiangjiro woke up slowly, turned his head to look out the window, and saw that it was already dark at this time.

"Time is finally here! It's finally dawn!"

Looking down at his wrist watch, Yoshiro Iida stood up and rubbed his sleepy eyes.

After glanced at the room, I saw half of mosquito coils emitting white smoke at the corner of the wall. Iida Xiangerro hurriedly walked over and wiped out the small half of mosquito coils left. Then he pushed open the door and walked out.

Mosquitoes are extremely rampant in this place of Myanmar even in winter. If there are no mosquito coils, mosquito nets, etc., you won’t sleep peacefully at night.

However, mosquito coils are now in short supply, but Japan has a small land and scarce resources. The production of this less important mosquito repellent coil is extremely limited.

So a high-ranking official like Iida Shojiro can manage enough, and ordinary soldiers cannot get enough supply. At most, a room of people can click on a short message before going to bed.

"What a quiet and peaceful winter morning! It's so beautiful!"

After walking out of the wooden house, Yoshiro Iida looked at the countryside shrouded in the mist, and suddenly felt refreshed when he looked at the beautiful rural scenery.

After taking a few greedy breaths of fresh air, Iida Yoshiro walked to the open space in front of the house, turned his head, shook his arms, bent down, and expanded his chest to do morning exercises.
Chapter completed!