Military Commission War Room. Since Jiang Haoran came in, the staff officers in the war room have been busy, from the personnel and equipment of the expeditionary force entering Burma, to the war briefings in recent months, to the deployment of the Japanese army, and so on, all the information about the Burma battlefield has been moved.

Jiang Haoran was very organized, what should be seen and what should be asked was clear at a glance, and he took a few staff officers to advance the entire battle situation on the sand table, and the situation of the entire Burma battlefield and the deployment of troops on both sides were already clear.

Next, Jiang Haoran put forward his own conditions to the chairman of the committee, but there was no lion to open his mouth, there were only three articles, the first was that he must concurrently hold the post of commander-in-chief of the 40th Group Army, and the second was that Du Yuming should be relieved of his post as commander of the Fifth Army, and the post of commander of the Fifth Army would be held by Deputy Commander-in-Chief Luo Zhuoying. The third is that he wants the expeditionary force to have absolute power over life and death, and all the senior members of the military commission are not allowed to command the troops remotely.

The first two seem to be very reasonable, but the third seems a bit far-fetched, shouldn't the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force have these rights? There is really no need to take this seriously.

In fact, as soon as Jiang Haoran picked up the composition of the expeditionary force, he saw the crux of the problem: The Fifth Army was the chairman's trump card, accounting for nearly half of the entire expeditionary force, but the three divisions under the jurisdiction of the 75 th Army were no longer the original troops, and the army commander Wu Huawen was carrying the three reorganized divisions, and although the army commander Wu Huawen was the chairman's right-hand man, the three divisions to which he belonged were full of the Gui Army, the Civil Engineering Department, and the Hunan Army.

The 66th Army is even more complicated, the original number of the 66th Army belongs to the Guangdong system, at the time of the Wanjialing Campaign, the then army commander Ye Zhao was greedy for merit and lied about the military situation, causing Jiang Haoran to be trapped behind the enemy, and was never hired by the chairman of the committee, and the number of the 66th Army was also revoked, and the 66th Army at this time was completely rebuilt, and the army commander Zhang Zhen was a puppet. The three divisions under its jurisdiction, the 28th and 29th, were all adapted from the Fuxing Society's special forces, and their complexity is unquestionable, and the new 38th Division, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, was reorganized from the tax police regiments of the Chen family and the Kong family, but before setting off, three regiments were drawn from them and added to the three regiments of Dai Li's anti-smuggling department.

The expeditionary force is undoubtedly a piece of fat shortage, not to mention that it is British and American equipment that it accepts, and the military salaries paid by the United States to the soldiers are all paid according to the US military 50 dollars a month, but the troops of the expeditionary force are still five oceans a month, according to the ratio of the dollar to the ocean at that time, one dollar is relative to four oceans, that is to say, more than 48 dollars of the salaries that should have been paid to the soldiers have flowed into the pockets of the top echelons of the national government, and whoever has the ability to stuff some people into the expeditionary force will be able to get a piece of the pie. Therefore, from the beginning of the formation of the expeditionary force, the major warlords and major factions all crossed the sea to show their powers, and in order to balance, the chairman of the committee also had to consider the interests of these people, which led to a situation in which the expeditionary force had many factions and many orders.

In order for Jiang Haoran to fully control the expeditionary force and quickly form combat effectiveness, he must cut off all these behind-the-scenes command black hands, so there is the third article of his "solemn and multi-tasking". With this Shang Fang sword in hand, no matter who it is on the battlefield in the future, those who dare not listen to orders, Jiang Haoran will slash at them without scruples, and no one will have anything to say at that time.

The chairman of the committee accepted Jiang Haoran's conditions in their entirety, and even found a trace of comfort on the issue that Jiang Haoran did not ask himself to serve as the commander of the Fifth Army, but let Luo Zhuoying take over.

But then, Jiang Haoran added another one, asking the military salary of the expeditionary force to be increased to five dollars a month, instead of five oceans. Commanders are a factor in quickly raising the morale of a unit that has lost its fighting spirit, but raising military salaries is the most straightforward, not to mention that compared to the original fifty dollars, this request is not excessive at all.

Under Jiang Haoran's explanation, the chairman of the committee gritted his teeth again and agreed, and I have to say that in order to let Jiang Haoran go on the expedition, he has made the greatest forbearance.

All problems were satisfactorily resolved, and Jiang Haoran, as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, immediately saluted the chairman of the committee, and promised that even if he died in the Burma battlefield, he would drive the Japanese army out of Burma and reopen the Yunnan-Burma highway.

The chairman of the committee was full of satisfaction, and immediately ordered Chen Chen to issue an order telegram to the expeditionary force, and Jiang Haoran also called Tie Erdan in, and asked him to immediately inform Liu He to prepare for mobilization, and the new third and new fifth divisions were ready to go to the battlefield in Burma. At the same time, the special combat team immediately flew to Chongqing and went with him.

Myanmar, Hukang Valley.

Rows of tanks, heavy artillery, and transport vehicles lined up neatly, and soldiers began to busily place explosive packs on the tank tracks, and barrels of gasoline were nervously transported to the gap between the vehicles and the heavy artillery, and the gasoline plus explosives packs were enough to blow these heavy weapons into a pile of scrap metal.

The officers and men of the expeditionary force who were densely packed with clearings and woods at the edge of the woods looked at the busy brothers in front of them, one by one, they were sad, once 150,000 sons had entered Burma, but now there are less than 120,000, and they have not fought a decent battle, but now they are even blowing up these heavy weapons that have not yet played their value, and more than 100,000 people are facing the prospect of escaping into the uninhabited savage mountains within a radius of several hundred miles. When the people first entered Burma, the people's send-off and ardent expectations are still vivid, and the soldiers were full of ambition and high spirits as if they were yesterday, but now they have fallen into such a field, which makes the soldiers embarrassed.

The officers and men at the grassroots level were unwilling, and how could Stilwell, chief of staff of the Chinese Theater, Du Yuming, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and a number of army commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders be willing.

At this moment, these big men were silent one by one, and frustration and shame were written on everyone's faces.

The soldiers in front ran to Du Yuming, and the report had been prepared and could be detonated at any time.

The corners of Du Yuming's mouth twitched, and he slowly raised his right hand, although this decision is a bit distressing, but the Savage Mountain is deserted, let alone the road, the troops can't take away this batch of weapons and equipment at all, and they can't leave it to the Japanese, right?

Just as Du Yuming was about to wave his hand, Hu Xiqun, the commander of the armored corps, walked quickly in front of him and knelt down with a "bang", and shouted miserably: "Commander-in-chief, I beg you, don't blow up these tanks, you just let me and the armored regiment stay, let me fight with the devils happily, and I promise that not a single tank will be left for the devils." ”

As soon as Hu Xiqun's words fell, Zhu Maozhen, the commander of the artillery regiment directly under the military headquarters, also knelt down far away towards Du Yuming, came all the way to the knees, and shouted in his mouth: "General seat, you can promise us, our artillery regiment has not fired a single shot so far, it will be blown up and escaped, I can't afford to lose that person!" ”