If during the period of World War II, which country could defeat Japan, it was undoubtedly the United States. Of course, if China hadn't restrained 3 million Japanese troops on land, the United States wouldn't have won so easily. But do you know? There was a country that actually directly wiped out 60,000 Japanese troops in a battle. After a battle, the Japanese army no longer dared to cause trouble for this country.
What is even more surprising is that this country is our old neighbor - India. Judging from the military rankings of countries around the world at that time, it was impossible for this powerful country to fight against India to be the turn of India. But reality is so magical. What happened at that time?
vowed to win the battle
In early January 1944, Japan received an order from Germany. Hitler hoped that Japan could send some troops to expedition to India so that part of the British army could be restrained. If you have the opportunity, you can also follow the trend of entering Afghanistan and dominate the situation in Middle East .
At that time, Japan was already unable to do anything and did not want to send troops into India. But the elder brother's order could not be disobeyed, so Japan could only symbolically send some troops to India to fight. The Japanese commander this time was Mutaguchi Ryoshi , which launched the Lugou Bridge Incident.
Japan has two meanings to let Mudaguchi Ryo also serve as the commander. The first thing I want to use the character of Mudaguchi Ryoya to give India a breakthrough battle. After all, the first shot of the war invasion of China was fired by Mudaguchi Ryoya.
In addition, the reason why Japanese senior officials chose him was mainly because his military command ability was too weak. After all, this war is for the Germans, and there is no need to use a very powerful general. Moreover, with the low-quality combat power of the Indian army, any general who sent him to the past might be able to defeat India, so Mudaguchi Ryo naturally became the commander-in-chief of of the Expeditionary Force. This battle is the famous " Impal Battle " in Indian history.
In Mutaguchi Ryoshi's view, this attack on India only takes 3 weeks to occupy the entire territory of India, so he only prepared rations for three weeks. Before setting off, he also boosted morale to the Japanese army in the tone of Genghis Khan, saying that if a strategic location was captured, then the money and women in this area belonged to the soldiers, and snatching it would be profitable. Then the Japanese army set out in a mighty manner amid the blessings of Mutaguchi Ryoya.
encountered a food crisis
The situation was indeed as Mutaguchi Ryo also guessed that the Indian army was vulnerable. Before he could fight the Japanese army for three rounds, he ran away in shame. The Japanese army, who had won the flag, wanted to go into the city to plunder, but they were stunned as soon as they entered the city. The supplies in the city have long been emptied by the Indian army, and there is really no grain of rice left.
Now the Japanese army began to panic. After all, they only brought food for three weeks, but now they have little left. Although the battle was won, there was no need to eat. According to the memoir written by a Japanese soldier at that time, it said that the soldiers in the city could not carry guns as long as they did not eat for a day.
In order to alleviate this crisis, Mutaguchi Ryo also quickly sent a grain transport team to load the whole truck with the grain, and then sent it to the Japanese troops on the front line. However, Mutaguchi Ryo also underestimated the terrain of India. Due to the undulating mountains from the station to the front line, the Japanese trucks struggled to drive. In some places, the headlights of the Japanese trucks were actually pushed down because of too many stones. In this case, the Japanese army still had to build roads for India. Isn’t it very magical?
magic grain transport operation
Since the road ahead is really not easy to walk, the logistics army can only give up the operation of truck grain transport. Then Mutaguchi Ryokawa also had a sudden idea and came up with a way to transport cattle and sheep. His plan at that time was to tie more than a dozen bags of rice on each cattle and sheep, and then drive them over and cross the ridge, and use their animal power to deliver the food to the troops. Moreover, after eating the food, you can slaughter cattle and sheep to satisfy your hunger, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.
Although the idea is beautiful, Ryo Mudaguchi obviously underestimated the Indian army's reconnaissance ability.When the Japanese logistics troops drove cattle and sheep through the road, the cries of cattle and sheep quickly attracted the attention of the Indian army. It is understandable that the Indian army cannot defeat the front-line troops, but if it cannot defeat the logistics troops, it will be unreasonable.
So these Indian troops began to ambush on the road to transport grain. When the Japanese logistics troops arrived, the Indian troops rushed forward and beat the Japanese troops to the point of being terrified. At the same time, the Japanese army's food was stolen, leaving the Japanese army with a confused look on their faces alone in the wind.
Mutaguchi Ryokawa also saw that the animal was not good at marching. After a while, he turned around and came up with the slutty operation of transporting grain by bicycle. Not only is the bicycle faster than cattle and sheep, but it will not cause much noise. It can be said that it is very low-key.
But Mutaguchi Ryo also obviously underestimated the weather in India. It was rainy season at that time, and the Japanese army riding bicycles were irritated by the bumpy water holes along the way while transporting grain. Especially when encountering some steep slopes, the bicycle cannot be pushed up at all and is directly trapped in the mud.
The terrible Japanese army
Due to these failed grain transport operations, the Japanese army on the front line was so hungry. The front-line commander kept sending telegrams, urging Mudaguchi Ryo to quickly solve the soldiers' food problems.
Mudaguchi Ryokawa was also angry by these worries and cursed directly: "Ji itself is a herbivorous nation, and he should have learned to survive in the jungle. Now India is a big jungle, how could you be trapped by hunger? If you really can't do it, you can eat grass!"
This sentence made the front commander speechless. At this time, he just wanted to lead the troops to evacuate India quickly. However, the old saying goes, "When I came, it's not that easy to leave."
In the attitude of taking advantage of your illness and killing you, the Indian army launched an encirclement and annihilation battle against the Japanese army. These Japanese troops, who had not received food supplements for a long time, were defeated and retreated under the overwhelming offensive of India.
In desperation, the Japanese army had to retreat to the jungle area. During the retreat, the Japanese army encountered another threat from India, poisonous insects and beasts. After all, in jungle areas like India, there are all kinds of strange insects. Many Japanese soldiers were suddenly covered with more than a dozen leeches while sleeping. What's more, they will suddenly fall into the snake cave, and the scene will be terrible.
In addition, the Japanese army encountered the third threat in India, that is malaria . After all, India's water quality is famously "clean and hygienic". Once the Japanese army drank the wild water, they immediately started vomiting and diarrhea. After a round of torture, I was already exhausted and powerless. As I said just now, the Japanese army's logistics forces were blocked, so materials, including medicine, could not be transported to the front line. So much so that these Japanese soldiers could only lie sickly under the big tree, waiting for the arrival of death.
"Picking up the bargain" Indian army
When the Japanese army was facing an existential threat, the Indian army ran over with a smile and surrounded the Japanese army without any effort. When they came to the Japanese army, they found that the Japanese soldiers at that time were no longer combat-capable. The soldiers' skin was so festered that some of them were even lying down and waiting to die. So much so that the Indian army easily killed 20,000 Japanese troops, and combined with the 40,000 Japanese troops who died of illness and starvation, the Indian army wiped out a total of 60,000 Japanese troops.
Mutaguchi Rein also resigned directly after learning about the situation on the front line. After all, the leader gave him a 100,000 army, and if only 40% were left, they would still be sick and weak.
If the emperor knows, he will give him a "slicing suicide" in a minute? Later, the top Japanese leaders stopped the losses in time and quickly sent an experienced general to command the Japanese army to retreat to preserve the vitality of the Japanese army stationed in India.
But at this time the Japanese army was at the end of their strength. On the Chinese battlefield, our anti-Japanese forces had already begun to counterattack; on the Pacific battlefield, , the US military also destroyed most of the Japanese fleet. At the same time, Italy surrendered, the German army was defeated by the Soviet army, and Tokyo, Japan was blown into a sea of fire by the US bomber, .
In this case, it doesn’t matter whether the Japanese troops stationed in India retreat or not, and it cannot reverse the situation of the war anyway. With the explosion of two atomic bombs in 1945, the Japanese emperor announced his surrender, and the Japanese army no longer had the fighting spirit. The Japanese troops stationed in India seemed even more dispensable, and most of the soldiers were sent back to the country by the Indian side.
So there is such a joke circulating on the Internet that it was said that after the Japanese attack failed to print, he no longer had the courage to attack the second time. After all, our territory in India is a "dirty god forbidden land", so how can mortals get close to it?
