Shadow Spy

Chapter 379: Removing obstacles with your own hands

2月20日，亚历山大中将下令，让在2月11日败于日军第33师团之手的英印军第17师先行撤往勃固省西北部的德贡驻防休整；
The 36th Indian Infantry Division, which originally defended the Myanmar-Thailand border, withdrew to garrison in Meng Town at the junction of Bago State and Karen State;
The British 7th Armored Brigade withdrew north to station in Bago, the British-Burmese 1st Division defended Yangon, and the British-Australian 63rd Brigade moved north to station along the railway line, while the headquarters began to prepare for evacuation.

On February 2, the Japanese 23th Division seized the only bridge on the Sitang River, broke through the Sitang River defense line, and attacked in the direction of Yangon with the coordination of the navy and air force.

On March 3, the Japanese 6th Division crushed the counterattack of the British 55th Armored Brigade near Bago, and its frontline was directed toward Yangon.

Because they were afraid that the Japanese army would cut off the railway line going north, when the Japanese army first started to attack near Bago, the British-Burmese Army Headquarters decided on the evacuation sequence of the British army. The headquarters went first by train, followed by the 1st Division. , the 7th Armored Brigade was at the rear.

Speaking of which, this is also the reason why the soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade had no fighting spirit and retreated after the first battle after contact with the Japanese army.Originally, with the armor strength of the 7th Armored Brigade, it should have been a battle without suspense against the Japanese army without tanks, but they themselves were blinded!
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Li Junhao watched the British army's actions with cold eyes. While sending a report to Washington, informing Yangon that Yangon would be lost due to the British army's abandonment, he also made preparations for his own evacuation.

This time, the British-Burmese military headquarters actually prepared a carriage for him. This is a sign of respect for him, the American special envoy!However, he had no intention of getting on the bus.

In his memory, Alexander, who was the last to be awarded the title of Field Marshal of the British Army in his previous life, was first promoted to lieutenant general for successfully commanding the British 1st Army to retreat from Dunkirk when he returned home, and then for commanding the British Army to withdraw to India in Burma. Promoted to general and became commander-in-chief of the British Army's Middle East Theater;
Later, relying on the outstanding performance of the 8th Army commanded by Montgomery on the North African battlefield, he defeated the declining German North African Army in the Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Tunisia, and was promoted to Imperial Lord;

Then he rose through the ranks, becoming Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Mediterranean Theater in December 1944, promoted to Marshal, and surrendered to Germany on April 12, 1945 on behalf of the Allies.

Finally, this person also served as the Governor-General of Canada and the British Secretary of Defense. He died in 1969.

However, no matter how brilliant Alexander was in his subsequent career, when he was in Burma, he was indeed a runaway general who specialized in trapping the Chinese Expeditionary Force.He was thinking: Should he kill this person with one shot?
He felt that no matter how incompetent the British soldiers were, they could never be like Alexander and just want to escape!Even if half of the British army can fight normally, the war situation in Myanmar will not be completely corrupted.

That afternoon, Li Junhao sent someone to notify the British-Burmese Army Headquarters, and took his own people to leave Yangon in the six armored vehicles.

When the adjutant told Lieutenant General Alexander the news, the head office sneered and said to the officers around him: When the American envoy first arrived, he looked like he wanted to force the British army to fight, but now, he wants to do it himself first Ran!
Haha... everyone laughed.
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On the morning of March 3, Alexander issued an order for the entire army to retreat, using his experience in commanding the 7st Army of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in May 1940, and once again taking advantage of the "advantage" of the British army's escape!
At 9 a.m., one of the most luxurious special trains in Myanmar stopped at the platform. A dozen luxury cars drove into the station and began to board the train under the escort of hundreds of guards.When he saw the convoy entering the train station, on a rooftop 630 meters away, Li Junhao, who had sneaked back alone last night, raised his own designed and modified M1L semi-automatic sniper rifle and stared through the scope. The door of the most luxurious carriage on that train was waiting for the British generals.

At 9:25, more than a dozen senior British officers who got off the car began to board the car while talking. Among them were three lieutenant generals!Li Junhao only knew Alexander among them, but not the other two. He was a little hesitant whether he should also fight.

At 9:28, seeing that the three lieutenant generals were about to board the train, Li Junhao knew that he could not wait any longer. He immediately held his breath and aimed at Alexander in the middle, and shot him on the head with a "bang"!Then the muzzle of the gun flicked and fired continuously. Within 20 seconds, an eight-round magazine was used up. The guns were all aimed at the two remaining lieutenant generals.

When the first gunshot sounded, the British generals reacted quickly and immediately crawled to the ground. The surrounding guards also swarmed up and surrounded them, making it impossible for Li Junhao to see the results of the battle clearly.

Then, realizing that the British army had noticed his sniper position, Li Junhao immediately put away his gun, rappelled down from the roof of the building to the street with a prepared rope, and ran away.

At this time, he did not know that in addition to killing the fleeing general Alexander with the first shot, the remaining seven shots killed Lieutenant General Smith, the frontline commander of the British Burmese Army, and killed Hutton, the former commander of the British Burmese Army who had just resigned. The lieutenant general was seriously injured, and a major general and two brigadiers were also injured by him!If he hadn't made sure to kill the three lieutenant generals, none of the injured would have survived.
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At around 11 o'clock, Li Junhao caught up with the armored convoy that was waiting for him. No one among his 50 men asked him what he was doing. These people were already die-hard members of the team!Only Xiaoyu and Xiaohu were a little unhappy, because they knew that Brother Jun must have gone on to do something risky, which made them very worried.

At this time, Li Junhao did not know that the British troops who were eager to escape did not stop their evacuation because the two lieutenant generals were killed and searched for the murderers throughout the city. Instead, they ran away one after another, and they were able to magically escape. The retreat plan formulated by the previous headquarters was strictly implemented without too much chaos!

If he knew this, he would definitely say: Who said the quality of the British army was poor?

By noon, there were no traces of British troops in Yangon. Only the Burmese troops supported by the British were still managing the city, but their intensity was very small.

Under such circumstances, incidents of vandalism, smashing, and looting occurred in many neighborhoods, and people simply did not dare to take to the streets.

However, the Burmese people were not very afraid of the Japanese army that was about to attack, because when the "thinking" Japanese army attacked Southeast Asia, they first cooperated with Thailand and did not carry out any killings; and after they invaded Myanmar, the Japanese army even more Under the banner of "driving out the British troops and rescuing the Burmese people", they even attracted Burmese ethnic armed forces there!
(End of this chapter)