Chapter 025: Peak Loop
The sudden return of the British to Burma also surprised the Chongqing government, what the British had done in Burma before, everyone knew very well, the British were definitely a scourge, so many British, the expeditionary force was afraid to send four or five hours to protect them.
On July 4th, Wang Hanzhang also got the news, in fact, what Wang Hanzhang was most worried about was that the British came back to intervene, but he didn't expect it to really come.
The British know that they have more sophisticated weapons to force the Japanese army, and 70,000 or 80,000 people were forced to surrender by a division of Japanese devils in Malaysia, which is unimaginable, unimaginable!
When Wei Lihuang called to ask Wang Hanzhang's opinion, Wang Hanzhang felt that the British must have come to stir up the situation, and I don't know how many vicious battles between China and Japan in Burma there are, and if we have to take care of the British at that time, the situation will not be optimistic, and the training level of the squadron is low, although the weapons have been greatly improved, but the ammunition has always relied on imports, and the British have been holding it in their hands, and the guns without ammunition are not as good as burning sticks. There is no way, but you can't give up for that little bit of people
In view of the fact that the British have repeatedly betrayed their teammates before, and there are no combat effectiveness that has been repeatedly surrounded by devils who are several times less than their own, Wang Hanzhang feels that he should put aside his involvement now, in case such a thing is encountered at that time, then it will be very troublesome for the squadron not to save it, and the weapons and ammunition are controlled by the British, and they are controlled by others, and I don't know if the veteran has taken his words to heart.
After thinking about it, Wang Hanzhang sent a report to Wei Lihuang, one is to ask the 66th Army, which is defending on the front line of Ren'anqiang, not to hand over the strategic position to the British, just as if the British are here to fight soy sauce, as if they are air, and all other planned strategic actions on the shore, not to be dragged down by the British.
The second is to want Britain and the United States and other allies to send a report, first put aside the involvement, in case hundreds of thousands of troops come to attack, the strategic deployment of the squadron will not change for the British, and then the British will flee if they can run for their lives, and if they can't escape, they will be left to fend for themselves. Of course, these need to be done by the expeditionary force, not handed over to Chongqing, and it is always tempting to sing black faces.
Although Wei Lihuang felt that it was not good to send a report directly like this, there was no better way, they were all smart people, Wang Hanzhang's words were already very subtle, and he did not say all the bad deeds of the British before, and Wei Lihuang could only send reports to Britain and the United States.
When the British received such a telegram, everyone's face turned green with anger, although it was subtle enough, but they were empty-hearted! Churchill looked at the telegram sent by the Indian governor-general, and his face was ugly, when it was the turn of the yellow-skinned monkey in the British Empire to point fingers.
However, he seems to have made a mistake, China is not trying to point fingers at him, but does not want to cause the collapse of the situation in Myanmar because of them, who called the British really weak.
And Roosevelt received a telegram from the expeditionary force, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart, in fact, he was also very disdainful of what Britain did, at the beginning he repeatedly betrayed others, and now people are back to life, you run back, it is normal for people to be disgusted, the British sent so many people, obviously not really to help the Chinese, everyone knows what they want to do.
However, although Roosevelt knew, he still had to defend the British, Britain was much more important than China, Roosevelt asked people to send a report to the Chongqing government, hoping that the two sides would work together and hinting that if China ignored Britain, then there would be great trouble, although it was not said that it was from Britain or the United States, but for Chiang Kai-shek, it was not a good sign.
Chiang Kai-shek had to put Wang Hanzhang's suggestion on the agenda, he did not have industry or was controlled by others, before Chiang Kai-shek sent two prospecting teams, but there was no news yet, Chiang Kai-shek decided to find iron ore at all costs. At the same time, he asked his wife to negotiate with the United States to support the production equipment, and the other thing was to try to get the British out of Burma, because the British would not help anything but bad things if they stayed.
Song Meiling quickly negotiated with Britain and the United States, but he did not explicitly say that the British would leave, and he also knew what the British were worried about, Song Meiling suggested to Britain and the United States that Britain should send more troops, preferably 200,000, the more the better, and counterattack as soon as possible to defeat the Japanese, but Britain found various reasons to push it off.
If the British agree to send more troops to participate in the Burma counteroffensive, then the pressure on the United States in the Pacific will be much less, and at the same time, it will be able to counterattack the Japanese mainland as soon as possible.
If the British withdraw their troops to India, then it will not drag down the squadron, which will lead to a total defeat, and the last time they almost lost Burma, which has a lot to do with the British, in response to the British fearing that Burma will be occupied by China, Roosevelt proposed to let China sign a guarantee agreement to protect the interests of the British in Burma, and the United States as a guarantor. Otherwise, it would be a matter of time before Japan attacked, and if the Anglo-Indian army was really surrounded, the squadron would probably not come to the rescue.
As for Churchill's statement that Britain controlled China's supplies, Roosevelt believed that if China surrendered to Japan in anger, not to mention Burma, even India might not be able to hold it, and Japan was likely to join forces with Germany in the Middle East.
Although Japan suffered a major blow, the war did not appear one-sided, and the variables were very great, and the United States was unwilling to face Japan alone in the Pacific Ocean, so even if it could win the war, the United States would certainly suffer a lot of losses. The British and female Roosevelt did not want internal contradictions at such a time, but China obviously has no way back, is it really impossible for China to protect the British when the British ** team has an accident, it is obviously impossible, the British garrison in Burma is like sand in the eyes, for the Chinese in addition to harm or harm.
Roosevelt could only try his best to persuade the British to back down, as for the British worried that China would take the opportunity to occupy Burma, this kind of thing may be possible, but Roosevelt did not think that Chiang Kai-shek had the courage, China's national strength was there, and the population may have an advantage, but a country that could not build two rifles with industrial power dared to fight with the world's industrial powers, it was impossible, as long as the United States scared it a little, Chiang Kai-shek swallowed it even if he had that thought.
Under Roosevelt's patience, coercion and temptation, Churchill finally compromised and did not give Roosevelt face, so the British would have to face Germany alone.
In the end, the British should retreat to India first, and Chiang temporarily hand over the defense of Burma to China, and then return Burma to the British as long as China signs an agreement that will not annex Burma.
When Chiang Kai-shek saw this telegram, he overturned the five-flavor bottle in his heart, and he didn't know if it was right that he didn't promise Wang Hanzhang at the beginning, if he had promised Wang Hanzhang at the beginning, then his efforts during this time would have been in vain, and the attitude of the British was very tough! If Britain is determined to retake Burma, China's strength may not be able to deal with it. So Chiang Kai-shek became more concerned about iron ore.
On July 12, China, the United States and Britain signed a secret agreement on Burma, and the British troops finally withdrew happily on the 14th, which gave a great stimulus to the Chinese expeditionary force.
However, the British finally left, Yamashita Fengwen was happy for a few days, and was beaten back to the prototype, without the British, his subordinates made Burma into a miasma, and the matter was probably difficult to suppress, and it would be very troublesome to attack at that time, and he had to revise the battle plan again.
On July 13th, the Chinese prospecting team finally found iron ore in Yanbian County, the scale is not small, Chiang Kai-shek is very happy, iron ore was found here, then I am afraid that there are a lot of iron ore around, think coal, iron and other mineral deposits generally do not exist alone, that is to say, there is a large amount of iron ore here.
On July 18, they finally discovered the Panzhihua iron ore, the largest source of iron ore for the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Plant, and later they discovered a large amount of iron ore in Panzhihua City and Xichang counties such as Miyi, Dechang, Huili, Huidong, Yanbian, Yanyuan, Mianning and Xide.
But soon everyone was distressed again, and after obtaining samples for them to analyze, they found that the iron ore here was really very complicated, and other countries didn't seem to have heard of it, and it was estimated that it was very difficult to refine, and they couldn't think of any way to refine it for a while.
Soon they handed over the report to Chiang Kai-shek, and they were happy in time, and suddenly discovered billions of tons of iron ore reserves, as long as the steel plant was built, then China would no longer be short of steel, and now suddenly a report came, they actually had no way to refine it, and no matter how good the equipment was, no matter how much money they had, it was difficult to break through in technology.
Chiang Kai-shek was like a red-hot iron rod that was suddenly put into the cold water, and he slipped and pulled out the cold. No matter how angry Chiang Kai-shek was, it was useless, but he couldn't wait, so Chiang Kai-shek had to turn to the Americans for help.
Scientists abound in the United States, and industry does not know how much to force China to be stronger, and will promptly believe that as long as Roosevelt nods, a solution will soon be found.
Song Meiling has another responsibility in this regard, asking Roosevelt to help refine iron ore and assist in the construction of steel mills, although it is very faceless, but it is related to the country, so she can only bow her head, this scholar and expert after the fact are all really talented and learned, but they are not bricks, called beasts, they don't know how to pretend to understand, and harm the country, they really tried their best, they also know the difficulties of the country, and the refining is really because they have no clue, so they can only report truthfully. If Dafan has a clue, they will definitely not ask foreigners for help and let foreigners see the jokes of their own country.
And Roosevelt didn't expect that China's southwest would actually find such a large reserve of iron ore, which is still not fully detected, and there will definitely be more, but what he has to consider is whether to help, and then buy a help.
The discovery of huge reserves of iron ore in the rear of China, and possibly a cluster of iron ore, soon spread throughout the world, and the most excited were the Japanese.