Chapter 198: Southeast Asia

Now the entire southern Qiannan has been controlled by Zhang Ziwen, and the Gui department has been withdrawn by the Ministry of Military Affairs because of the mistake of Kunlun Pass.

And Zhang Ziwen took this opportunity to recruit soldiers, and they came from all over the world.

The Great War in the North, from three or seven years, was a migration to the south, and some people walked for two or three years.

The Japanese army invaded Guangzhou and Nanning, and the people of Liangguang also began to migrate inland, and Guizhou, as the rear of Guizhou, began to be overcrowded.

Even the small city of Duyun has expanded by half, and now has more than 60,000 inhabitants.

And most of them will join the army spontaneously as soon as they arrive, in order to retake their homeland as soon as possible.

It's the New Year, but Duyuncheng doesn't have a trace of the atmosphere of the New Year, because most people can't even afford the Spring Festival couplets, and many people wear linen and filial piety, because they are paying tribute to the dead heroes.

Zhang Ziwen still remembers that his father once asked him a question, and this question was aimed at these heroic spirits.

Zhang's father didn't say much, only three short words, is it worth it?

Zhang Ziwen did not give any explanation at that time, but took out a map of China and told his father that tens of thousands of compatriots are now being oppressed and persecuted by Japan.

If you don't go out and don't carry machine guns, then it's possible that the next one, oppressed, will be our fellow villagers.

From then on, Zhang's father no longer asked, but took out 100,000 oceans to form a relief association for fugitive compatriots, and also pulled many well-known squires.

Xiao Luo asked Zhang Ziwen on the way back: "Commander, you said that we are not fighting anymore, why are there still people hanging white flags?"

Zhang Ziwen replied: "In today's world, every second, every minute, every moment, there are people who are dying, spilling blood for this country. Not just Duyuncheng, but the whole of China, I believe that every day, there are people who lose their loved ones. Every day, there are people who die for the sake of this country.

I believe more that now, every Chinese has a dream in their hearts, that is, to drive the Japanese out.

Xiao Luo, you have also learned a lot this year. Lu Wenqing has become the chief of staff, do you want to find a position too? ”

Xiao Luo, you just followed Zhang Ziwen behind and didn't say a word.

Lu Wenqing brought back six people and formed a staff department, and now Zhang Ziwen only needs to sign most of them.

As for the other battalion commanders, except for the old pole who retreated bravely, Long Er served as the battalion commander, and Sun Liang volunteered to be a major.

The other three became lieutenant colonels and battalion commanders, and the guerrilla detachment expanded rapidly, now a force of 7,000 men.

The training team has grown to 800 people, and the local security regiment still maintains 500 people in one county, and the extra soldiers have been sent to the front line.

"Commander, why do you think we haven't received an order yet? It's only been a year since we've been on the battlefield. ”

Xiao Luo startled Zhang Ziwen, and was almost thrown into the river.

"There will be~"

Zhang Ziwen only said three words, Zhang Ziwen had no hope on the battlefield in the north, and He Yingqin had already pressed him to death in southern Qiannan.

To go to the battlefield, only if the Japanese army invades the south, or Lao Chiang takes the initiative to attack, this is possible.

However, Zhang Ziwen also felt that the battlefield was not far from him, and the Yunnan-Burma Highway was newly opened.

The Japanese army has always wanted to completely blockade China and the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and they will definitely do the same, relying on Long Yun's Yunnan army alone, it is unreliable.

With Lao Chiang's suspicious nature, he will definitely go to the sand in the Yunnan army, and when the time comes, all kinds of troops will have it.

He Zhang Ziwen didn't have the posture of asking Lao Jiang, but Qiu Qingquan had or said someone else.

In addition, the Japanese army had recently entered the northern part of French Indochina by land and sea, completely cutting off the international passage between China and Vietnam.

The national passage between China and Vietnam and China and Burma has been cut off, and the only import road is gone, Zhang Ziwen does not believe it, Chiang Kai-shek is not in a hurry, and he does not believe that Britain is not in a hurry.

Because Britain is only an island country, and the country is small and there are no rich materials, he needs many, many raw materials to support their country.

Therefore, British interests in the Far East will not be abandoned, but it is a complete joke to want the current British army to fight on two fronts, and France is even more of a joke.

As for the United States, which only knows how to make war profits, Japan will not be able to defeat the Pacific.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway will definitely be opened, because the Hanyang Arsenal, the Zhuxian Arsenal, and the Jinyang Arsenal all need to supplement machine tools.

Otherwise, the brothers on the front line would have waited to fight the Japanese army with burning sticks.

This is not Zhang Ziwen's hope to make a contribution, but there is no way, if he can, why should he, Zhang Ziwen, a rich son, go to the battlefield to work hard.

Zhang Ziwen was not bad at thinking, in January 41, the British government appointed Major General Dennis as military attache to the army in Chongqing, and began to brew Sino-British military issues with China, and Britain invited a military delegation of the Republic of China to Burma, India, and Malaya for inspection.

The inspectors were sent out, but the real thing was to negotiate in Chongqing.

The United States, which is outside the world, strongly agrees with this matter, because the United States also has some interests in China.

The U.S. loans to China were repaid with tung oil and tungsten ore, and now that China has not yet repaid its debts, he certainly will not let China fall on this.

Because the United States occupied the Philippines, the United States found that the Japanese army was deliberately intervening in Southeast Asia, and the Philippines was the most important thing as the choke point of Southeast Asia.

At the same time, the United States needed China's War of Resistance against Japan to consume the main force of the Japanese Army, contain the Japanese army, and prevent the main force of the Japanese Army from pouring into Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Give full play to China's role as an effective military ally of the United States, and after the war, it is hoped that China will become a loyal political ally.

Once the Japanese army occupies Burma and controls the Yunnan-Burma Road, it will be difficult for the supplies to China to be transported to China, and it will be difficult for China to sustain the War of Resistance against Japan, which is extremely unfavorable to the global strategy of the United States.

In July, the United States completely banned the export of scrap steel to Japan, and the embargo on Japan was extended to all weapons, ammunition, military equipment, aircraft parts, optical instruments, metalworking machinery, and various strategic materials.

However, instead of stopping its advance into Southeast Asia, the Japanese army withdrew two divisions and two brigades from the Guinan battlefield and entered Vietnam.

Because at this time the Anglo-French army was defeated by Germany.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seeing that the Japanese army was unrelenting, approved the expansion of the embargo against Japan to include brass and pure copper, which were urgently needed for Japanese munitions.

But the Japanese army still did not give in, because their nation was a nation that could not control itself, and the Japanese cabinet chose to "take" the raw materials by itself.

Therefore, in order to protect its own interests and avoid premature war, the United States actively supports China sending troops to fight in Burma.

At this time, Japan was already dumb and couldn't say what it was hard to eat, and it only thought that the United States could take a step back, but the United States did not flinch.

Japan also chose not to back down, so it began to attack Britain and France.