Song Xilian directly asked Chiang Kai-shek for credit that time, and sang the song of quickly solving Longling, everyone became optimistic and waited for the good news of Longling with hope.

Song Xilian is very passive, he has a hard time arguing. Many people said that Song Xilian was transferred from the post of commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army mainly because of the misreporting of the military situation in June. This may be one of many reasons, but it is not the main reason.

From June to September, three months passed, and in these three months, many things happened on the battlefields of China, all of which were much more troublesome to Chiang Kai-shek than the false report of Song Xilian in June.

In the battle of Longling, no one expected that it would last so long, and it was fought for more than three months.

Since the beginning of June, after Song Xilian reported that the 11th Group Army had successfully captured Longling City, Chiang Kai-shek had been waiting for the good news from western Yunnan, but he did not get the good news from Wei Lihuang. Chiang Kai-shek had a big headache.

At this time, the national army and the Japanese army were fighting on another battlefield in the country, and the battle was fought for several months, and the war was in shambles.

In the spring of 1944, during the counteroffensive in western Yunnan, the Japanese army's "Operation No. 1" was launched, the purpose of which was to open up the mainland communication line, occupy the key points along the Hunan-Guizhou, Guangdong-Hanzhou, and Jinghan railways, destroy the main bases of the Chinese air force, and destroy the will of the Chongqing regime to continue the war of resistance.

In order to force the Chongqing government to surrender, the Japanese army dispatched 510,000 troops, 100,000 horses, 1,500 artillery pieces, and 15,000 automobiles to sweep down the Pingjing Line with great vigour. In just a few months, wars raged in northern, central, and southern China. 400 kilometers between the Yellow River and Xinyang, 400 kilometers between Yuezhou and Hengyang, and 600 kilometers between Hengyang and Guangdong. The scope of the battle is vast, and the scale is greater than all previous battles.

Chiang Kai-shek's million-strong army met the enemy. The movement of the large corps was defeated by the flexible detours of the Japanese army, and the arrogant and domineering Japanese army attacked in many ways, quickly breaking through the various defensive lines of the Kuomintang army, and the 1st, 9th, 4th, and 7th theaters of the Kuomintang government were in an all-round emergency.

Henan was lost, and the Japanese army opened the Pinghan line and controlled the Longhai line. and continued to wave south, pointing directly at Xianggui. Hengyang was lost, Changsha was lost.

The Japanese army marched westward again, and in September, the Japanese army reached Guangxi. Quanzhou was lost, and Guilin caught fire.

The flames of war soon reached the southwest.

The situation is getting worse day by day, Chiang Kai-shek is crying bitterly, how can he have troops to reinforce western Yunnan?

From the bottom of his heart, he still has more expectations for Longling, which is all the descendants of his descendants who have accepted American-style equipment, and he hopes that General Eagle Dog can quickly take Longling, so that he can free up his hands from western Yunnan to deal with the emergency situation in Hunan and Guizhou.

Fierce fighting is still going on in western Yunnan, and good news has finally come from the battlefield in northern Burma.

On 3 August, the Allies captured Myitkyina.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately thought of the New 1st Army, a good fighting force led by General Sun Liren and trained by American equipment and Langa, which had advanced all the way in the counteroffensive in northern Burma and achieved outstanding results.

If the new 1st Army is transferred to Longling, it can not only end the war in western Yunnan as soon as possible, but also after the end of the Longling war, go north to meet the arrogant Japanese army, deal a head-on blow to the Japanese army that is rapidly moving south, and flank the safety of Chongqing.

Chiang Kai-shek soon expressed to Stilwell his intention to transfer the 1st Army back to China to participate in the war. At this time, the New 1st Army was resting, and Chiang Kai-shek thought that the battle for Myitkyina was over, and the transfer of the New 1st Army would not affect Stilwell's deployment.

I didn't expect that this chairman of the committee, who had a heavy army, would not be able to move his own troops. As the commander-in-chief of the Chinese forces in India, Stilwell was not negotiable. He insisted that the X+Y plan was a battle plan jointly decided by the top leaders of China and the United States, and that he must carry it out to the end, and that the battle to conquer Myitkyina was very arduous, and the troops had to be stationed and rested. Stilwell adamantly disagreed with changing plans to bring in troops stationed in India before the end of the fighting in northern Burma.

The chief of staff of the Chinese theater despised Chiang Kai-shek from the bottom of his heart, and not only did he not agree to the transfer of the new 1st Army, but instead sharply asked Chiang Kai-shek why he used Hu Zongnan's army, which had nearly 500,000 troops in the 16th Army, to monitor Yan'an, instead of putting this army into the war against Japan.

And in 1936, the year before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was promoted to lieutenant general by Chiang Kai-shek, commanding the First Army, and concurrently serving as the commander of the First Division. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the First Army successively participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Kaifeng, and after completing the strategic tasks, they retreated back to the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi. In August 1939, Hu Zongnan was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 34th Group Army, the first person among the Whampoa students to become a senior military general.

His army was massed in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province, which played several roles in Chiang Kai-shek's plan. The first role was to defend the Yellow River and Tongguan line, and prohibit Japan from entering Shaanxi; The second role is to prevent the Eighth Route Army in northern Shaanxi from developing its own forces in Guanzhong; Third, supervise the Ma Jiajun in Qinghai, Ningxia, and Gansu to prevent them from becoming a threat to the national government; Fourth, it is to monitor the movements of Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang and ensure the safety of the communication lines with the Soviet Union.

This is the reason why Hu Zongnan did not participate in other battles in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War.

But Hu Zongnan was not idle, and in 1940, he sent troops to capture five county towns in the northern Shaanxi base area. In 1943, he was preparing to blitz Yan'an, but Xiong Xianghui, a Communist Party member lurking beside him, leaked the news, and had no choice but to give up......

Stilwell's spicy rhetorical question was indeed to the point, stinging Chairman Chiang's most sensitive nerves. Chiang Kai-shek could only grit his teeth with hatred for this rigid American general, but there was no way, and after putting down the phone, he scolded several times: "Mother."

When the war in western Yunnan was not going well, Stilwell kept an eye on Longling, and he sent Major General Ferris to Chongqing to make his views strongly expressed in front of He Yingqin, chief of the general staff of the Chongqing Military Commission: "The abandonment of Longling by the 11th Group Army is really an insult to the military reputation and morale of the Chinese army, please order to stop it, so as not to make a vain sacrifice for all the troops who are working hard in Burma." ”

There were not many words, but the words were sharp and aggressive, and Chiang Kai-shek had to be severely reprimanded and asked Wei Lihuang to find out who decided to withdraw from Longling without authorization. However, at this time, Chairman Chiang had no intention of removing Song Xilian.

Perhaps this was the politics of the Nationalist Government at that time, and things had already happened and could not be saved, but there were always some related or irrelevant people who had to pay for what happened afterwards.......