Chapter 1358: The Industrious Bees
Of course, it is impossible for Jiang Haoran to have any official documents for this kind of thing, after all, the interests of the British are still involved, although Britain is already the sunset, but it is always an allied army, and the face that should be given has to be given.
It was declared to the outside world that this was Aung San's personal behavior, which had nothing to do with Jiang Haoran, and the reason why he did not stop it was also to stabilize the situation at this critical moment.
As for the little-known Po Nai Win's promotion to prime minister, this is the meaning of Yan'an, Po Nai Wan is actually a person from Yan'an, and the question of Myanmar's future ownership is already self-evident.
To be honest, it is not very appropriate for Jiang Haoran to do this kind of thing to provoke contradictions at this time, but he must take this step, if he does not digest Myanmar before this, how can he digest India?
The final item on the agenda of the meeting was the current deployment of troops.
The expeditionary force originally had five group armies, of which Tang Enbo's Far Fifth Group Army had already returned to China, and the remaining four group armies, Liu Dakun's Far First Group Army was on the way to attack Siam, and Zhang Zhen's Far Third Group Army was the second echelon of troops and served as the garrison in eastern Burma at the same time.
Dai Anlan's Far Second Group Army is in Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, and only six divisions of Chen Mianwu's Far Fourth Army remain in western Burma; in addition to serving as the garrison of the entire western Burma, they will immediately transfer two divisions into India, and at the same time, two divisions will enter a state of readiness and be ready to rush to the aid at any time.
After careful consideration, Jiang Haoran designated the 93rd Division and the Qing 218th Division as the first batch of troops to enter India.
The commander of the 93rd Division is Major General Chen Feng, and after the former commander of the 93rd Division, Lu Guoquan, returned to China because of a leg injury, Jiang Haoran appointed Chen Feng to take the position, and he also took a fancy to his bravery and strategy, and he was the most suitable pioneer officer.
The commander of the Qing 218th Division is Huang Baitao, a division commander who was originally taken down by Jiang Haoran, when attacking Ruigu, the Qing 201 and Qing 202 divisions led by Huang Baitao and Li Tianxia were directly broken up by Jiang Haoran to supplement the new 38th Division and 28th Division, and there was a joke about the "officer company" at the beginning.
Later, after Gu and Jiang Haoran united in the front, Gu recommended the two many times, and Jiang Haoran agreed to let Huang Baitao be the commander of the 218th Division, as for Li Tianxia? Jiang Haoran really didn't like this person, and he didn't trust him very much, so he arranged for him to work in the logistics department.
Of course, Jiang Haoran is not the kind of person who is completely emotional, he is willing to let Huang Baitao take office, and naturally he still thinks that he has this ability.
Although Huang Baitao was not very brilliant in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in history, he had a proud record of defeating Mr. Su in the War of Liberation, which shows that his tactical level is not low.
This old and young, one dares to fight and kill, and the other is cunning, and the two complement each other.
For this expedition, Jiang Haoran is even more opportune, the bloody battle in front of the British army to do, they only care about the stability of the rear, if the British want to escape from the battle, do not need to be polite to them, directly machine gun fire, if something happens to Stilwell to negotiate and deal with, once this situation really occurs, the first time to report, the two divisions immediately go to the front, if necessary, can be airlifted.
Four divisions, of course, could not hold back the German attack, but they could definitely hold back the retreat of the British.
Of course, Chiang Haoran preferred that this kind of thing would not happen, not because he had confidence in the British, but because he believed that the Germans could not have the idea of invading India and Burma for the time being.
Early the next morning, Jiang Haoran and his entourage flew directly to Yunnan, and after staying in Yunnan for a day, they flew to Guilin.
The former enemy's headquarters for this campaign was located in Guilin.
At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Haoran's special plane landed at Guilin's Yangtang Airport.
Yangtang Airport was built in 1935, when it was just a small airport, can only be used for several planes to take off and land at the same time, after the opening of the Hump route, a large number of aircraft poured into the southwest border of China, Yangtang Airport has undergone two expansions, and now has become a large field airport that can be used for dozens of aircraft to take off and land at the same time, and the latest jet fighters can land at the airport calmly.
At present, a Chennault flying group is stationed here, but with the start of the Liangguang Campaign, a large number of fighters, bombers, and transport planes have poured in.
At this time, the strength of the Chinese Air Force was no longer the same as before, and Jiang Haoran's independent research and development and production of nearly 3,000 planes every year, plus the number of planes that the Allied forces had aided China in the past two years had at least exceeded 5,000, excluding nearly half of the battle losses, it was a huge number.
And with the opening of the Northwest Transportation Line, this number will expand indefinitely, especially a large number of transport aircraft will become the most industrious bees on this transportation line.
When Jiang Haoran walked down the ramp of the Boeing 307, Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater, was walking quickly with Liao Lei, Zhong Bin and other staff generals.
Hearing that Jiang Haoran personally went to Guilin to command, Zhang Fakui flew over from Shaoguan a few days ago to complete the site selection and arrangement of the headquarters before Jiang Haoran arrived.
The group stepped forward quickly to salute, Jiang Haoran returned the salute, and then stretched out his right hand to hold Zhang Fakui's right hand, and said with a smile: "Brother Xianghua (Zhang Fakui), is it difficult for you to fly over in person?" ”
"It should be, it should be, the deployment of troops in the early stage is unclear to others, and I am worried that it will affect the offensive plan of the general seat." Zhang Fakui smiled cautiously.
"Also, if Brother Xiang Hua doesn't come, it's really hard for me to figure out in a short time."
"Where, the head seat is brave, a month to fight the island army in Southeast Asia to lose their armor, the recovery of the allied territory is innumerable, my generation can only do a little bit of meager efforts, dedicated to the head seat to do a good job of logistics services, ashamed."
"Brother Xiang Hua is serious, at the most dangerous time of the Anti-Japanese War, you led your troops to defend the gate of Hunan, and you made great contributions, and now the Guangdong Campaign still depends on you to create brilliance."
Zhang Fakui straightened his chest and said: "Xiang Hua is willing to bow and die as hard as he can." ”
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After some greetings, everyone quickly got into the car, and the huge convoy drove towards the city.
Dozens of minutes later, the convoy stopped in front of a manor-style Guibei residential building, the car door opened, Jiang Haoran walked out of the car, and what fell into his eyes was a magnificent building, with earthy yellow bricks, tall and very imposing courtyard walls, which looked more like a castle, and there were several small windows on the wall, and there were corners of the east and west.
On both sides of the gate carved in blue bricks and stones, the couplet of "mountains and rivers are eternal, heaven and earth are spring" is prominently engraved, and the momentum is extraordinary.
Jiang Haoran immediately frowned, and vaguely guessed who the owner of this house was.
According to the usual practice, after the end of a major battle, there is a lengthy foreshadowing for the next battle, and the plot will be relatively boring, but these are essential, and all the officials should be calm.
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