Bai Chongxi said: "This is not necessary, the special operations division takes the initiative to take on this task, it is beneficial and harmless to us, with their combat effectiveness and equipment, compared to the Japanese army, it is only high, and the garrison of Huitong Bridge can be said to be foolproof, and behind them is the Baoshan base, they will never allow the Japanese army to pass through Huitong Bridge." The defeat of Burma has led to the complete cutting off of the Yunnan-Burma highway, and we have no international aid materials, and this war will not last long, so we will definitely regroup our forces to counterattack Burma and open up the transportation channel again, and the Huitong Bridge is the only way for us to go to Burma, rather than build it at that time, it is better to keep it. ”

The chairman snorted coldly and stopped talking, obviously, what Bai Chongxi said was not unreasonable.

Chen Chen, who was on the side, said appropriately: "The problem of Huitong Bridge can be put aside for the time being, but the problem of the expeditionary force in front of me needs to be solved urgently. ”

The chairman glanced at Chen Chen and said angrily: "Do you think he is an immortal and can come up with a way while sitting at home?" ”

Chen Chen's face suddenly turned red, he knew that the chairman of the committee had not considered Jiang Haoran, but he believed that the expeditionary force at this time was by no means a strategy that could solve the dilemma, even if Jiang Haoran was called, he would at most ask to parachute into Burma to fully control the expeditionary force and bring the expeditionary force out, and Jiang Haoran at this time, not to mention the outliers in the chairman's heart, at least dangerous elements, he didn't want to hand over the expeditionary force to Jiang Haoran again.

At this moment, a senior staff officer hurriedly walked in, still bringing an urgent telegram from the expeditionary force, still asking the chairman to decide on the direction of the expeditionary force's retreat as soon as possible.

The chairman of the committee sighed deeply and said, "Order, the expeditionary force will immediately return home over the cross-country mountain." ”

"Sit, no!"

"Take a seat, think twice?"

Chen Chen and Bai Chongxi said almost at the same time.

The chairman of the committee looked at Chen Chen, and Chen Chen immediately said: "Seat, the equipment of the expeditionary force is your hard work, and those tanks and heavy artillery can only be abandoned in the cross-country mountains, do you want to think about it again." ”

The chairman waved his hand helplessly and said: "Don't want it, don't want it, blow it all up, and you can buy it again if you don't have weapons, but losing more than 100,000 soldiers is the biggest loss?" ”

Bai Chongxi said: "Commission, the Savage Mountain is uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and the troops cannot be fed at all, and the Burmese language of the Savage Mountain means "the place where the devil lives", the mountains overlap, the forest python is like the sea, the swamps in the woods are continuous, the river valleys are dense with mountains, jackals and beasts are rampant, and the miasma malaria is spreading, once the troops go deep, there is no way back, only afraid that more than 100,000 people will enter, and few can come out. ”

The chairman of the committee looked at Bai Chongxi angrily, and roared: "Fart, I don't believe that the soldiers of my expeditionary force can't conquer a mere savage mountain?" Do you mean that the expeditionary force should retreat west to India? I tell you, this is impossible? I must not allow the soldiers of my party-state to become vassals of the British, to be used as watchdogs by the British? ”

The chairman of the committee has a special affection for the army, thinking that he was just a little-known small role in the Kuomintang at the beginning, and he could not be compared with Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin, but since he became the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy and took control of the Whampoa Student Army, his status has skyrocketed, and he has not necessarily understood the theory of "power from the barrel of a gun" than the one in Yan'an, so he would rather the expeditionary force have some losses than be controlled by the British or Stilwell. In fact, Stilwell has always had this idea, and even the chairman of the committee estimates that he has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and the more this is the case, the more the chairman will not be able to let them get their wish.

After losing his temper, the chairman looked tired and dropped a sentence "Execute!" Waving his hand and leaving the scene, the command suddenly shook his head and sighed, there was only so much they could do.

The news of the loss of Lashio reached the United States on the same day, and the speed of the Japanese army shocked the Americans again, and the powerful air force of the Germans began to ravage the British Isles, and the offensive posture did not weaken in the slightest.

The Americans began to panic, the Japanese army controlled the entire Southeast Asia, the life vessels of the Chinese were also cut off, if the Chinese judged the situation and negotiated with the Japanese, then the Japanese army could immediately draw millions of troops from the Chinese battlefield and throw them into the Pacific theater, and the British could not hold out for long under the crazy attack of the German army, once Britain surrendered or was destroyed, the United States will immediately face a two-sided attack on Germany in Europe and Japan in the Pacific, although the United States has a strong industrial base, but in the face of the two fascists, He didn't dare to charge a big-tailed wolf. Therefore, the people of the United States are expecting the government to come up with reasonable measures to solve the current crisis.

At the beginning of the day, night has just fallen, and New York's Times Square has already gathered many people, a huge screen hangs high, and people wait eagerly for the movie to start.

Back in the morning, a report on "What should the Americans do now in the face of fascism?" The movie posters appeared on the streets of New York, so the people of New York came to the square early, and they wanted to know what they were going to do now, because it was about the future of the country and their future.

The movie began in a urging sound, the first thing that appeared on the screen was the dense airplanes in the sky, below the plane was a blue sea, there were countless aircraft carriers and warships moored on the sea, obviously there was a military port below, and then, the planes in the sky began to pour bombs on the military port, and the raindrops of shells suddenly turned the military port into a sea of fire.

This is a real video of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when a film company shot a movie nearby, and recorded the scene as it was.

Although it was only a short period of 10 minutes, it clearly recorded that the Japanese air force bombed Pearl Harbor indiscriminately in two batches, and the warships turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and there were close-up shots, which clearly showed that the American soldiers on the deck fled in a hurry and jumped into the sea, and even many people had become burning men one by one, and the scene was so miserable that people wept. The planes of the large aircraft carriers that had not yet had time to take off were destroyed one by one by the rain of shells, and the small warships tilted one by one and gradually disappeared into the sea.

After the video data was released, there was a long list of battle damage figures, including how many aircraft carriers, how many battleships, and how many casualties, each of which was shocking. Then the voiceover sounded: "The Japanese fascists have committed heinous crimes against the United States, what should you do as citizens of the United States of America?" ”