Chapter Fifty-Eight: South Asia is in Emergency
"It seems that the people in the command are not dizzy yet." Zhuo Fei also got the order of the joint command from the military command intelligence station, and learned that the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army that were originally entrenched in Shanxi had advanced to Hebei.
The Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army mobilized troops to advance to Hebei, the first to feel helpless was the Shijiazhuang Japanese puppet army troops, three consecutive days of blockade and investigation, and failed to find out the traces of the attackers, if they still focus on the attackers, maybe the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army troops from Shanxi will fight all the way to Shijiazhuang City. Thinking about it, under the guidance of Okamura Ningji, the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang finally put on a posture to meet the enemy, and the closed city gate was opened.
On the first day when the Japanese puppet army lifted the blockade, Zhuo Fei and the two disguised themselves as the Imperial Association Army and followed a team of Imperial Association troops out of Shijiazhuang. Zhuo Fei's rainy night action was too shocking, not only successfully attacked the heavily guarded railway station, but also cleaned up the high-ranking officers of the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang. The Japanese troops in the city were better, but the Imperial Allied troops were terrified, fearing that the elusive assassin would find them.
The intelligence station of the military commander in the city also took the opportunity to lobby a large number of officers in the Imperial Cooperative Army, as long as there are troops attacking the city, these Imperial Cooperative Army will immediately turn against the water, and the Imperial Cooperative Army escorting Zhuo Fei and the two out of the city is only one of them. "Mr. Zhuo, let's send it here, and we'll see you again in the future." Liang Jianbo, who also disguised himself as the Imperial Army, said goodbye to Zhuo Fei and sent Zhuo Fei away, Liang Jianbo had to return to the city, and before receiving the order from the military headquarters, he was still the head of the intelligence station in Shijiazhuang today.
Waving goodbye to Liang Jianbo and others, Zhuo Fei and the two went straight to Yangquan non-stop, Yangquan has unique coal and iron resources, and the Japanese army has been vainly trying to use this center on Zhengtai Road as its military base to provide war fuel and fight in North China and then destroy the two major anti-Japanese base areas of Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei, and Henan, among which the 5,000-6,000 troops of the Japanese army in North China were entrenched in Yangquan Town.
The forces of the Eighth Route Army wanted to enter Hebei through Yangquan, and it was imperative to defeat the Fourth Brigade and Dejiang Brigade of the Katayama Independent Mixed Brigade entrenched in Yangquan, but Zhuo Fei rushed to Yangquan in a hurry not to catch up with this battle. After separating from Liang Jianbo and others, Zhuo Fei called up the radio from the space and contacted Angela, who was far away in Ruili. Through Angela, Zhuo Fei learned that there were new changes in the ever-changing European battlefield, and this change was extremely unfavorable to the British and French forces.
Because of Zhuo Fei's appearance and peace, the German army launched the war several months earlier than in history, and relying on the sharpness of assault rifles and Leopard tanks, coupled with a large amount of oil reserves in Germany, Britain and France were crushed by the German army everywhere at the beginning of the declaration of war on Germany. At present, only the British Navy can still have the upper hand, but their ground forces have been beaten back by the Germans, and in Vivien's words, it is only a matter of time before the Germans want to occupy all of France.
As in history, in the face of the unstoppable German army, the Anglo-French defense line was repeatedly broken by the German mechanized forces, because of the rapid advance of the German mechanized forces, the Anglo-French forces were finally besieged to Dunkirk in northeastern France near the Belgian border. Historically, about 400,000 British and French troops were besieged by the Germans in Dunkirk, because the British government planned the largest military retreat in history at that time in order to rescue these besieged allied soldiers. In this large-scale retreat, code-named "Plan Dynamo," the British and French used a variety of ships to withdraw large numbers of troops from besieged Dunkirk, which would later become the backbone of the defense of the British Isles and the counterattack on the German mainland.
But now it is different, because of the existence and appearance of Zhuo Fei, and in Zhuo Fei's final plan, he doesn't want the strength of Western countries to expand too much. Although the course of the war had changed slightly due to the German army's early start of the war, Zhuo Fei did not recall Vivian to Ruili in advance, and it was precisely because of Vivian's reminder to Hitler that the generator operation planned by Britain and France failed to succeed.
Germany, which has abundant fuel, is no longer the Germany that has been disposing of troops for oil for a long time, relying on the massive supplies imported by Zhuo Fei to help them import from all over the world, the scale of the Luftwaffe has swelled to a terrifying point. In the face of overwhelming and non-stop air raids, hundreds of thousands of British and French troops who were besieged in Dunkirk could be said to have lived like a year, and the various ships mobilized by Britain and France finally rescued only a few thousand Allied soldiers, and the other ships were all sent to the bottom of the sea by the Luftwaffe.
Because of the appearance of Zhuo Fei, the Dunkirk retreat eventually evolved into a great rout and a great surrender, and it was not only the countries affected by the war that learned the news, but even some countries that had not yet been affected by the war also sighed about it, in their opinion, there was no power in the world that could stop the Germans' external expansion. The ambitious Japanese were also encouraged by the fact that the Germans had forced hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers to surrender at Dunkirk at one time, and the Japanese army, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, immediately began to deploy military operations against the countries of South Asia.
Because of the loss of power in Europe by Britain and France, the Japanese army took it for granted that it first focused on Burma and Vietnam, because Japan and Germany were allies, so the Japanese army's attack on South Asia was also famous. Just when Zhuo Fei was still leading the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang to fight guerrillas around Baoding, the Japanese army had already mobilized heavy troops to march to Burma, and when Zhuo Fei and the two infiltrated Shijiazhuang to assassinate Tada Jun, the vanguard of the Japanese army had already landed in Thailand in advance, and there were signs of entering Burma by homeopathy.
The British troops stationed in Burma were alarmed and immediately sent an envoy to Chongqing to try to persuade the coalition government to send troops to Burma to defend Burma together with the British army. The reason given by the British was that since the Chinese government relied on the Yunnan-Burma road and railway to transport war materials, it had the obligation to cooperate in the defense of Burma, otherwise the British army would completely close all the passages between Burma and China. It's just that the British didn't know that before Zhuo Fei left Chongqing, he had already consulted with the high-level officials of the coalition government on this issue, and in order to prevent the Chinese army from being used as cannon fodder by the British, the coalition government would never agree to send troops south, at least until the Japanese army fully occupied Burma, the coalition government would not agree to this request of the British.
When Zhuo Fei contacted Angela on the radio, it was the time when the Burmese envoy of the British army arrived in Chongqing, and Zhuo Fei, who learned of this, was afraid that someone in the coalition government would not be able to resist the temptation of the British and make a decision that would damage Chinese etiquette, so he decided to return to Chongqing immediately. Zhuo Fei was going to bypass Yangquan and enter Shanxi, and then fly directly to Chongqing by military plane through the Jin Sui army, but he didn't know that Chongqing had already made a pot of porridge for the olive branch thrown by the British.
"No, absolutely not, haven't we already discussed this matter a long time ago. When the British closed the Yunnan-Burma Highway earlier, didn't they say that they were forced to do so? So good, we don't have troops in our hands now, this is also our helplessness, don't the British still have India, they just transfer troops from India, why do you have to pull us in? Chiang Kai-shek's face was gloomy, since the Jewish munitions base in Ruili began to produce weapons one after another, Chiang Kai-shek's life was much better, and now even without the Yunnan-Burma road and railway, the domestic troops have been able to replenish their own weapons and ammunition.
"Chairman, now is not the time for us to be rash, a temporary defeat on the European battlefield does not mean anything, Britain is an old empire after all. As the old saying goes, emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and the British have too many colonies overseas, and they can pull out a huge number of troops at any time if they want to. Besides, the British are sincere this time, and not only promise to fully undertake all the arms and equipment of our troops going south, but also provide us with a batch of fighters, which our air force needs very much. He Yingqin tried to convince Chiang Kai-shek that he did not want to lose in vain the arms and supplies that the British had promised to bear.
"Minister He, in my opinion, the crux of the problem now is not what the fighter is, but the real intention of the British. Everyone still remembers, those issues that Zhuo Fei discussed with us before leaving Chongqing, if the British are going to use our troops going south as cannon fodder and bait to ensure that their own troops are safely withdrawn to India, then what should we do with those troops going south? You know, the combat effectiveness of the British army has always been not very good. Zhou Enlai, who attended the meeting, stood on Chiang Kai-shek's side clearly, and some people in the audience nodded secretly.
"I still have the same opinion just now, let's not say I agree, but we don't refuse, try to delay the time. Regardless of the conditions given by the British, we are just an excuse anyway, we have limited troops. As for whether to send troops south to Burma, all this depends on the next move of the Japanese army to decide, if the British troops stationed in Burma are really vulnerable, even if we send troops south to Burma, it will be useless. Instead of sending our soldiers to the British as cannon fodder, it is better for us to hold our troops for now, the British themselves have enough troubles, and it is not their turn to intervene in our own affairs. ”
Chiang Kai-shek's last words made He Yingqin's heart skip a beat, and he knew that the chairman of the NPC was expressing dissatisfaction with certain aspects of the British, and He Yingqin could not help but secretly scold in his heart that the British's hand was stretched too long, and that the affairs of his own country had not yet been settled, so he had to come to Chongqing to make wanton accusations against the affairs of the coalition government, and it was no wonder that the chairman of the NPC National Committee would say this. The meeting continued, Chiang Kai-shek's personal attendant quickly came in and whispered a few words to Chiang Kai-shek, and the participants obviously felt that Chiang Kai-shek's face immediately improved, they did not know that Chiang Kai-shek had learned that Zhuo Fei, who had killed all four sides, was on his way back to Chongqing.