Chapter 54: The White Phosphorus Bomb Appears

Smith did not dispute the inability to control the course of the war without command, but the British ambassador in Chungking immediately objected, saying that it was not in Britain's interest. "This is absolutely not possible, the British government supports your weapons and equipment and a large number of logistical supplies, why can't it give us the authority to command the troops?" The British ambassador's opposition did not surprise Zhuo Fei, the British have always been arrogant, and it would be strange if this guy didn't jump out to oppose it.

"Mr. Ambassador, I would like to say that it is in the interests of Britain to refuse to hand over command to you, and we do not want to see what happened in Rangoon and Ringanqiang a few months ago, and besides, we do not have so many troops for the Japanese to pursue." Zhuo Fei gave the answer with a smile, Smith was confused by Zhuo Fei's answer, but the British ambassador understood what Zhuo Fei wanted to say.

Zhuo Fei was naturally satirizing the poor performance of the British army in Yangon a few months ago, in fact, it was not only the British army in Yangon that was pursued by the Japanese army and fled, but also the British army stationed in Ringanqiang. Zhuo Fei believed that the ambassador must know the inside story, so he gave such an answer, and at the same time warned the other party. China promised to send troops to Burma, although it needed military aid from the British, but these soldiers who went south were not cannon fodder for the British.

After Zhuo Fei reported the inside story to Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek immediately transferred a negotiation team from the Ministry of Military Affairs to replace Zhuo Fei. No longer bothered with the negotiations with the British, Zhuo Fei, who had nothing to do, rested in Chongqing for a few days, and while taking Zhuo Yan to enjoy Chongqing's delicious food, he helped the intelligence department eliminate several Japanese intelligence bases.

Zhuo Fei has a map system, but whenever Zhuo Fei opens the map system, as long as the Japanese within the search range of the map system or the guy with two ambitions with the coalition government will appear as a red dot, Zhuo Fei only needs to follow the instructions of the map system to narrow down the scope and lock the other party. In just three days, Zhuo Fei captured more than 30 Japanese spies in Chongqing, and also found more than a dozen traitors who had accepted bribes from the Japanese from the joint government departments, and at this time, the negotiations between the coalition government and the British side also came to an end.

According to the agreement reached between the coalition government and Britain and the United States, the coalition government would form a southward army to prepare for Burma after the second batch of military aid arrived in Yunnan. The United States will provide more than $20 million in gratuitous aid, while the British will provide a £5 million to the coalition government. At the same time, the United States and Britain would renounce all preferential terms in China and all concessions in China after the end of the war, beginning with the southward movement of Chinese troops into Burma.

Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to add Hong Kong to the conditions, but was blocked by Zhuo Fei, and it was already good to be able to get back the concession and the British and American concessions in China. Besides, the war will never end in a short period of time, China can afford to spend it with Japan, but the British cannot afford to spend it with Germany, and there will be many opportunities to fight the British in the future, but there is no need to rush for a while.

Of course, Britain and the United States could not give up all their interests in China so easily, and at the end of the agreement, the other side deliberately added an additional condition. The proviso that the Chinese government must guarantee the legitimate interests of all British and American people and business groups in China is very general, but Zhuo Fei does not care, because he knows that even if Britain and the United States can win World War II, they will not have the strength to wage a new war against China.

The agreement has been signed, the second batch of military aid promised by the British has been shipped, Zhuo Fei hurriedly rushed back to Ruili with Zhuo Yan and a team of observers from the coalition government, and the war was about to begin. The tactics discussed by the commanders of the independent army were finally determined to use strong firepower, and the independent army first used strong firepower to strike at the Japanese army in the front, and then used armored forces to carry out frontal suppression and breakthrough, so as to force the Japanese troops facing the front to break up point by point.

"What do you do if the Japanese army doesn't break up as you think? What would you do if the Japanese army only chose to fight to the death? You only think of using strong firepower to suppress and break through the enemy, don't you think of other means? Zhuo Fei was a little disagreeable with the tactics of the Independence Army against the enemy, earlier, he had already given them a confidential document of the umbrella company, who would have thought that these guys did not take that document seriously.

"Let's take a closer look, this document contains the most lethal weapon in the world so far, and no one has carefully read this document if you are against it?" Zhuo Fei took the document that Zhuo Yan found and threw it on the table, his face full of dissatisfaction. "As commanders, you must not always think of using strong firepower to strike or let your soldiers force a surprise attack, but you must also judge the situation and use new weapons in combat."

In fact, Chen Geng and his gang had never even heard of the weapons and equipment in this document that Zhuo Fei brought to them, so naturally they had no way of knowing the power of these weapons and equipment, and Zhuo Fei had to give them a popular science education on new weapons. The Japanese troops confronting the Independence Army on the front line of Lashio had been cautious for fear that the other side would suddenly attack, and the troops supporting them were still resting in Mandalay, and before that, the 55th Division did not want to engage the opposing Chinese army.

The Japanese 55th Division did not want to fight the independent army, but this was no longer what they could expect, and on the third day when Zhuo Fei rushed back to the front line of Lashio, the war broke out suddenly. The night was pierced by dawn, and smoke rose from the positions of both sides, and just as the Japanese soldiers who had risen early were lining up to eat, the roar of artillery suddenly sounded on the positions of the independent army that had been prepared, and then the shells of the 55th Division fell on the positions of the 55th Division.

During this half-hour cover, the artillery regiment of the 1st Division of the Independent Army used up a full three bases of ammunition, and almost all the barrels were smoking in the early morning mist. The shirtless and sweaty artillerymen collapsed to the ground as soon as they received the ceasefire order, and the whole half hour of high-intensity fighting almost numbed them. In order to prevent the occurrence of thermal expansion and cold contraction, after firing the last shell in the chamber, the exhausted artillerymen began to cover the guns with their guns and immediately moved their positions.

The half-hour fire coverage of dozens of artillery pieces made the position of the Japanese 55th Division almost in ruins, and such a dense artillery bombardment was not unprecedented, but it also turned over the frontal main position of the 55th Division. Under the tremendous power of high-density artillery fire cover. Most of the trenches, bunkers, and cantonment caves built by the Japanese army have become graves dug by the Japanese army for themselves, and a large number of Japanese firepower points have disappeared without a trace, leaving only craters and ruins.

The Japanese troops, who were suddenly covered by artillery fire, naturally thought that the opposing Shina troops would immediately launch an infantry attack, and in the roar of the officers, the Japanese soldiers who had rushed up to reinforcements entered the already dilapidated positions, and they were ready to meet the enemy. Zhuo Fei, who saw all this from the telescope, tilted the corners of his mouth and was happy, no matter how good the Japanese soldiers were, they had nothing to do with themselves, and then, it was time to give another big gift.

A few minutes later, more than a dozen fighters rose from the temporary airfield and appeared in mid-air, and what the Japanese soldiers in the position did not expect was that these fighters that appeared in mid-air were not the Imperial fighters they imagined, but enemy fighters painted with the blue sky and white sun flag under the wings. The 55th Division originally had no anti-aircraft weapons, and in the face of the enemy fighters that dived down, the Japanese officers in the position could only shout and be careful to hide.

Of course, the group of planes ordered by Zhuo Fei to take off was not here to fish in troubled waters, and under their bellies, there were improvised bomb throwers installed by Jewish technicians, on which two silver-white bombs were hung. The Japanese troops in the position did not know that these two bombs, which did not look very big, were actually white phosphorus bombs, a large killing weapon developed by the umbrella company. "Bombs were dropped, they bombed." The Japanese officers in the position roared, and the soldiers dodged the bombs that fell in mid-air according to the officers' shouts.

The swooping group quickly rose into the air, and the white phosphorus bombs exploded five seconds after leaving the belly, creating a terrifying white phosphorus bomb air explosion effect. After the white phosphorus bombs exploded in the air one after another, they formed a rain of fire that fell from the sky, and these rain of fire falling from the sky could not be extinguished at all, and once they attached to people's bodies, they would burn all the way to their bones. Therefore, as long as these fire rains are stained with a little bit, they will either be killed or injured, and even if they can survive, they have already lost their ability to fight.

This was a more brutal method of warfare than poison gas warfare, and a large number of Japanese soldiers fell to the ground screaming, and many Japanese soldiers were burned to the point that they were not human, and their bodies were curled up in a ball, charred and scorched, like inadequately burned charcoal. "You can see it all, this is the power of the new weapon, with it, when we face the enemy's frontal position in the future, we don't have to think about how to break through the opponent's position, you only need to think about how to give full play to their power in the war."

The tragic situation on the Japanese position was seen by Chen Geng and his gang in the telescope, and no one expressed any objection to Zhuo Fei's words, but they all unanimously showed rejection of the power of the white phosphorus bomb, because the lethality of this new weapon was too cruel. "Stupid, when facing the enemy, you should not think about cruelty or not, but how to defeat the opponent at the lowest cost, and how to ensure that your soldiers suffer fewer casualties. As a commander, you should not have this kind of thought, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to the soldiers under your command, this sentence is sent to everyone, I hope you will keep it firmly in mind. ”