What Zhu Maozhen said was the truth, the first battle fought by the expeditionary force was Tonggu, but when the artillery regiment was still in the rear, and when the artillery regiment came up, the troops had already begun to retreat in an all-round way. At this time, the feelings of the Chinese soldiers for the cannon can be said to be extreme, they have suffered too many little devils' shells, and watched too many brothers die tragically in the devil's fire, and finally they have twenty-four 150 mm heavy howitzers, originally hoping to avenge the dead brothers, so that the little devils can also taste the taste of being bombed, who knows that this cannon has not been released, and these hard-won treasures will be blown up, which makes these hot-blooded soldiers how to stand it.

Perhaps it was the words "escape, shame" that stimulated everyone, as soon as Zhu Maozhen's words fell, several regiment commanders immediately knelt in front of Du Yuming, begging Du Yuming to let them stay and fight to the death with the Japanese army.

This scene made several generals unable to stand, Dai Anlan, Sun Liren, Yu Shao, Liao Yaoxiang, Peng Bisheng and other division commanders all stood up, and one by one they were indignant and asked for battle.

Not far away, Stilwell clasped his hands in front of his chest, with a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth, and shook his head unconsciously, feeling a lot of emotion, Chinese soldiers have never been bloodless, and it is the high-level who only cares about interest conflicts and blind commands to make their bloodiness meaningless.

"What are you doing, do you all want to disobey?" Du Yuming roared wildly.

Sun Liren pouted and said: "If you don't listen to such an order, more than 15,000 people of my new 38th Division, 5,000 have been lost in the Tonggu battlefield, and the remaining 10,000 people, I don't want to throw them to the Savage Mountain to feed the poisonous insects and beasts, so they will die meaninglessly, so I decided to obey General Stilwell's order and withdraw the troops to India." ”

"Sun Liren, I have no problem with you being the watchdog of the British, you fucking get out of Lao Tzu immediately!" Du Yuming pointed at Sun Liren and scolded.

Although you are the commander-in-chief, Du Yuming really has no way to disobey the new 38th Division on the spot, obviously, Sun Liren must have received an order from the boss behind, otherwise, he may not dare to make this decision.

Just as Sun Liren turned around, Du Yuming ordered the herald to immediately convey the order, ignite the explosives package and blow up and burn all the heavy weapons and supplies that could not be taken away, he didn't want to delay it for too long and cause another incident.

At this critical moment, a staff officer hurriedly shouted "urgent telegram from the Central Military Commission" all the way, attracting the sideways attention of all the generals.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the Military Commission is urgent!" The staff officer ran to Du Yuming and said breathlessly.

"Read!" Du Yu is famous and calm.

The staff officer glanced at Du Yuming with a strange expression, opened the folder slowly, and read aloud: "Du Yuming is hereby relieved of his post as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force and commander of the Fifth Army, and immediately transferred to India to return to China to report on his work, appointing Jiang Haoran as the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and Luo Zhuoying, deputy commander-in-chief, concurrently serving as the commander of the Fifth Army. ”

As soon as the staff officer's words fell, there was an immediate uproar at the scene, there were surprises and sighs, only Du Yuming suddenly seemed to have been struck by lightning, standing in place dumbfounded and motionless, this news was too sudden, so that he couldn't accept it, the battlefield changed generals, this is a great shame for a soldier, with Du Yuming's status in the eyes of the chairman, he never thought that this scene would happen to him, and it was so real.

No one noticed that when this order was read out by the mouth of the staff officer, Stilwell waved his fist in the air, and there was a smug expression on his face, Jiang Haoran successfully became the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and there were his achievements, although he had not seen Jiang Haoran, but he still knew something about his achievements.

Probably no one will know that when Anna in the United States sees him, he must respectfully call him uncle, because he and the old Morgan have been old friends for many years, and just before coming to Burma, he also went to visit the old Morgan, and he heard all the in-depth understanding of Jiang Haoran from Anna, which is far more authentic and credible than hearsay. Therefore, he has always been full of curiosity about Jiang Haoran, and he has always expected Jiang Haoran to become the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force in his heart.

Before everyone could recover from the shock of the first telegram, the staff officer took out another telegram and read it aloud: "Commander-in-Chief Chiang has ordered that all divisions of the expeditionary force should be based on the Hukang River valley to carry out defense on the spot, and he will be airborne in Burma at noon tomorrow!" ”

?????? Bangkok, the headquarters of the Japanese Southern Army.

The Japanese Southern Army was a strategic campaign corps that was directly subordinate to the army base camp in Tokyo. At the same level, there were also the Eastern Army, the Chinese Dispatch Army, and the First and Second General Armies stationed in the Japanese mainland.

It mainly fought in Southeast Asia (Anglo-Dutch Far East colonies such as Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore) and the Pacific (American colonies such as the Philippines and the Central and South Pacific Islands, and South Pacific islands such as New Guinea and the Solomon Islands under Australian control).

Historically, the Japanese army had only three armies and 10 divisions and 10 divisions in the early stages of the Pacific and Southeast Asian theaters, with a total strength of about 300,000, but now it has increased to four armies, plus the troops directly under the headquarters, a total of 15 divisions and regiments, and the strength has exceeded 500,000. In the Pacific Theater, seven divisions and U.S. forces were engaged in island battles, two divisions were stationed in French Indochina, Siam and other occupied areas, and the other six divisions were all engaged in the Burma battlefield.

In addition, for the first time in the Southern Army, 9 tank wings have been assembled, and the Japanese army's tank strength has always been weak, and there are only 20 tank wings like this, which shows that the Japanese army has really invested a lot of money in order to take Southeast Asia as soon as possible!

In terms of commanders, it has gathered Terauchi Shouichi, Tsukada Tsukashi, Yamashita Fumi, Imamura Jun, etc., all of whom have always been the powerful generals relied on by the Japanese army's base camp, and have accumulated rich experience in commanding large corps operations since the war of aggression against China. Moreover, there is another person who has to be mentioned, and that is Tada Jun. This often defeated general who fought with Jiang Haoran many times and almost folded in the hands of Jiang Haoran was also incorporated into the Southern Army this time, Tada Jun probably never dreamed that he would really be associated with Jiang Haoran in his life, and he couldn't escape the fate of fighting him anywhere, and what he didn't expect was that the battlefield in Myanmar was the beginning of his nightmare.

In the headquarters, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, Terauchi Shouichi, was sitting in the first place, and sitting next to him was the chief of staff of the Southern Army, Tsukada Tsuka.

The situation in Burma was completely under the control of the imperial army, so their expressions were very relaxed, the two were smoking and drinking tea and chatting, and the laughter from time to time could tell that they were in a good mood, and at this moment, a senior staff officer hurried into the headquarters.