The 200th Division rushed to Lashio in the starry night, and with Wang Hanzhang's golden finger, there was no need to run another 500 kilometers, no more time to waste three days, and there was a calm time to build fortifications, and that scene in history would not be staged again.

After Du Yuming and Stilwell quarreled, they immediately reported the situation in Burma directly to Chiang Kai-shek, and now the purpose of the expeditionary force can be said to have failed, the British have run away, Stilwell and the British have teamed up to frame the expeditionary force, if you don't plan early, I'm afraid the expeditionary force will be finished.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing, received Du Yuming's telegram, read it carefully, his eyes were full of anger and helplessness, Britain and the United States did things too desperately, but they had to rely on them, especially the Americans, the materials all relied on their support, and the materials had to pass through the territory of the British, the British were not only from the battlefield, in the previous distribution of materials, the British secretly shoddy, how many Chinese materials were seized. Chiang now feels that defeat in Burma is only a matter of time. Lao Chiang can only start preparing for the retreat of the expeditionary force now, but he can't express his thoughts at the moment, for many reasons.

On April 23, the 200th Division arrived at Lashio after three days of rapid marching, and on April 24, the 200th Division sent a number of small teams to search around, but no trace of the Japanese was found, Wang Hanzhang remembered that in history, the Japanese occupied Lashio on the 29th, so it should have arrived at Lashio on the 27th, and there are still four days to go, according to the speed of the march, the devil should be hundreds of kilometers away. But in any case, Lashio has 200 divisions, and it will definitely not be occupied as easily as in history.

At least Wang Hanzhang has changed a little bit of history, take your time, and it will get better and better in the future.

After Wang Hanzhang arrived in Lashio, he re-analyzed the situation, Wang Hanzhang believed that the British directly withdrew to India, then Burma only had an expeditionary force that was unfamiliar with the place to fight, and in terms of troops, the expeditionary force and the Japanese army were not far apart, in terms of weapons and equipment, the Japanese army had an advantage, especially air supremacy in the hands of Japan, and Japan's Zero fighters were now in the limelight.

According to history, the expeditionary force will soon withdraw to China, and Burma will be completely occupied by Japan, and Wang Hanzhang does not know whether the expeditionary force should continue to hold on to Burma or withdraw to the country, but Wang Hanzhang believes that it is best to hold on to Burma, and the history will counterattack Burma in October next year, so now Japan does not occupy an absolute advantage, and has not cut off the retreat of the expeditionary force, so Wang Hanzhang feels that it is better to hold on.

In addition, after the failure of the first expedition in history, the west of the Nu River was occupied, Burma was occupied, China's foreign relations were cut off, materials could not be transported, and the War of Resistance became more difficult, and the Allies had to open up new transportation routes. It is known as the "Hump Route". The route is more than 800 kilometers long, spanning the Himalayas, and the mountains along the route are all around 4,500-5,500 meters above sea level, with the highest altitude reaching 7,000 meters. From the Ting River in Assam, India, through Myanmar to Kunming and Chongqing in China, when the transport plane flies over the peaks of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, it cannot reach the necessary height, and can only pass through the canyon, and the flight path is undulating, like a hump, hence the name of the hump route. There are often strong changes in airflow when flying aircraft, and in case of accidents, it is difficult to find a flat land that can be forced to land, and even if the pilot parachutes, he will fall into the deserted jungle and it is difficult to survive; The air interception of Japanese aircraft also posed a great threat to the convoy; During the flight, due to the influence of air currents, the machine instruments often malfunction and will deviate from the flight path. Because of the harsh flight environment, aircraft crashes are a frequent occurrence, and with the crashes, the number of aircraft crashes and deaths is gradually increasing. Close contact with death, some unpredictable situations, on the plane, accompanied by the pilot, in addition to the co-pilot and others, it is estimated that there is also death. Flying was perhaps the strongest dream of the young people of that era, but crossing the Hump route was almost a dream built on death, because every voyage might be the last flight for these pilots, and for every plane lost, a new plane had to be replaced, and each plane had a corresponding number, and when accidents were frequent, the new number of planes would be seen every day.

The "Hump Route" passes through alpine snowy peaks, canyon glaciers and tropical jungles, boreal primeval forests, and areas occupied by the Japanese army; In addition, the climate in this area is very harsh, with strong air currents, low air pressure, hail, and frost, so that the plane faces the danger of crashing and hitting a mountain at any time during the flight, and the plane crash rate is alarmingly high. In clear weather, the pilot could quite well fly along the reflection of the crash debris. They gave the valley, strewn with the wreckage of their comrades' planes, the metallic name "Aluminum Valley". Therefore, the "Hump Route" is also called the "Death Route".

The cost of this mode of transport is enormous, with a serious contrast between the resources consumed during the transportation process and the resources consumed during the transportation process, and the losses are exacerbated in the event of an aircraft accident. In order to reopen the Yunnan-Burma Highway and open up a ground transportation channel, the air force also took on the task of transporting combat personnel, transporting Chinese combat units to India for military training at that time, and then uniting with domestic combat units at that time, and at the same time attacking the Japanese army, recovering lost territory, and opening up the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

Chennault paid only five hundred planes, while the "Hump Route" lost nearly six hundred planes in just three years, and most of them were plane accidents rather than being destroyed by the Japanese. Therefore, if Burma can be saved, the manpower and material resources of these 600 aircraft can be put into the battlefield without wasting it on the way by air.

Although the current situation is not optimistic, even if we cannot keep all of Burma, if we keep the northern part of Burma and the Japanese army in the southeast of Burma, then the planes will be much safer, and a lot of materials can be transported from India to China on land. In addition, fighting with the Japanese army outside the country, you can consume devils, and we don't feel distressed if we break Burma, here is either Japanese or British, Wang Hanzhang doesn't think that Lao Jiang has the courage to occupy here, and even if he will occupy here, it is better to smash this place than to smash the country, it is best to run Burma into a meat grinder, attract the Japanese army in a steady stream, consume them, the more cabinets consumed, the easier the domestic counteroffensive will be in the future, and the losses will be smaller.

If you keep Burma or northern Burma, the possibility of Yunnan being attacked is even smaller, and the loss here is small, then China's power will be strengthened, and even if Myanmar is eventually lost, the devil's loss will naturally not be small, and at the same time, it is impossible for the devil to get more material supplies in Burma, so Wang Hanzhang believes that Myanmar should be held.

Wang Hanzhang put pen to paper to digitize the consequences of the loss of Myanmar and China's losses, because it will be more intuitive to look at it in this way, and Lao Jiang will also see it at a glance, and the digitization is also for more Americans to see, that is, to let the United States increase material support.

As far as the United States is concerned, China insists on resisting Japan, then the United States can concentrate on Europe first and then Asia, if China surrenders, Japan will definitely not stop there, the two countries have already started a war, and they will not talk about peace and make peace, Roosevelt agreed, and the American people will not agree. If China surrenders, these troops will be freed, and then they will either attack the United States or Soviet Russia, and Japan can also recruit tens of millions of cannon fodder from China, which is definitely enough for Japan.

And if China surrenders, then most of the people who are still resisting, or those who are waiting, will completely fall to Japan, at least they will not resist anymore, the government surrenders, the territory is occupied, there is no hope, even if there is a rebellion, the huge army of traitors is enough to destroy them.

Without the action of external forces, it is impossible for China to drive out the Japanese in a short period of time after surrendering, and if it also wants to rule China for hundreds of years like the Manchus, then it is estimated that few people in China can speak Chinese, and the current situation in Japan is different from the situation when the Manchus entered the customs three hundred years ago.

In addition, with the reproduction rate of the Japanese population, maybe they will gradually reduce the Han population at that time, family planning, at that time the Japanese nation may be the largest ethnic group in China, and China may never have an independent day, at least in the absence of external forces.

Wang Hanzhang wrote out two copies of these things, one was for Chiang Kai-shek to see, hoping that he would see the consequences, and the other was for Roosevelt to see, and Chiang Kai-shek naturally talked about the national righteousness, the future of the nation, and the tragic situation after China's surrender, and vaguely mentioned that if he surrendered, he would be a traitor, the sinner of the Chinese nation, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty tried their best not to be assimilated, but they did not require the Han people to learn Manchurian culture and speak Manchu, so the Han people were preserved, of course, that is also the limit of the times, At that time, although the Eight Banners were powerful, if the military and civilians in the Guannai were unanimously resistant, it would not be something that his millions of people could withstand, but today's Japan is different, the population difference between him and China is 1:5, and now it has entered the era of hot weapons.

To Roosevelt, it is natural to say that if China surrenders, how much disaster it will bring to the United States, even if Japan will not be able to defeat the United States for a while and a half, but when the Axis powers control Eurasia and Africa, then can the United States be left alone, no one can guarantee that the Axis powers will not attack the Americas and the United States again, so the United States can only fully support its allies when Shanghai has an advantage in the overall situation, and in addition, China did not kill one more Japanese, and the Americans will face one less threat in future wars, The casualties of the American soldiers are naturally slightly reduced, and they only need to pay some weapons and ammunition without tightness, which is definitely worth it.