Chapter 054: You Pit Me, I'll Pit You
Stilvert was speechless angrily, and he said for a long time: "General Wang, are you sure that this is a war, there are only a few people in the expeditionary force, you need so many supplies, and if India gathers these materials, then the British army may only have underwear, how can they fight the Japanese army." ”
Wang Hanzhang could see that Stilwell was angry, and he was not in a hurry to say: "It seems that there are a lot of supplies, but we are also trying to defeat Japan as soon as possible, the Japanese stay in Burma for a day, we are not at ease, things have changed too much, we hope to drive the Japanese out more than you, India is lost, Britain and Africa, Australia, Canada and their homeland, but Burma is lost, China will not only be besieged by the Japanese army in the south, but also material rescue will not be obtained, China will only be lost at that time, right?" The sooner we drove the cabinet out, the sooner we sent troops to India to help the British destroy the Japanese there, after all, the British have always been defeated again and again against the Japanese, and we are also very worried about whether the British can hold out until the expeditionary force supports after half a month or even longer, and the battlefield situation is difficult to say, so we can only ask for more supplies, we have some people, but what is the use of no ammunition! ”
"General Stilwell, you are a veteran, materials are important or people are important, that little material is exchanged for the security of Myanmar and the security of India, if you always think that you are at a loss, and you always want to pull away the material village to the warehouse than give it to your allies, then you want us to play a greater role, do you think it is possible!"
"The Japanese army is hiding underground, there are no large number of aerial bombs, if we rely on people to seize them one by one, how long will it take, we want planes, you know that if we succeed in the sneak attack, you can provide us with timely support materials, then the Japanese army's supplies and planes will not be in place in time, maybe we have taken Rangoon, now the Japanese army has gathered a large number of advanced Zero fighters, and the expeditionary force in addition to 15 P51, far from enough, there are a large number of Americans among the pilots, they drive backward planes, No matter how skilled the technology is, the possibility of being shot down will be much greater, and the possibility of death is also very large, do you want your citizens to die if they can be saved, don't you think it's too cruel It's not Chinese, but pure Americans! ”
Stilwell was really afraid of Wang Hanzhang, and he felt that if he refused, he would be the most criminal person, "But general, there are too many materials, and I can't satisfy them for a while." ”
Wang Hanzhang said: "I want you to be satisfied at once, but 50 planes, you hurry up, there are shells and bombs, the speed of our attack depends entirely on your material supply, if the materials are insufficient, delay the attack, resulting in the inability to rescue the British army in time, then don't say that we will not save you." ”
Stilwell said, "I see, I'll want to report to the above." ”
Stilwell hurriedly went back to report, Roosevelt smiled bitterly, and Churchill roared, the expeditionary force did not have strong requirements for Japan on this matter, but if the supplies were not enough, the expeditionary force had many ways to delay time, so Britain had to be pinned down by the expeditionary force.
China, the United States and Britain finally reached an agreement, and the result caused a lot of repercussions in China, before and after the comparison of things, everyone thinks that it is relieved, young men and women regard Wang Hanzhang as an idol, and Wang Hanzhang has become the dream lover of countless girls, although Chongqing also has many high-ranking officials and children are very right, but how can the little white face that relies on family relations to be compared with Wang Hanzhang.
In Burma, Wang Hanzhang quickly accepted 50 aircraft, including 35 P51s, 15 B17 Flying Fortress bombers, as well as a large number of aerial bombs, as well as some other supplies.
The expeditionary force kept its promise and immediately transferred two divisions, as well as four divisions under Wang Hanzhang, to India to assist in defense, but Wang Hanzhang left all the Japanese-style weapons, and 50,000 people in the four divisions passed in a suit of clothes, Wang Hanzhang did not believe that the British did not give equipment, Wang Hanzhang did this in addition to weapons and equipment, there is also a reason that Wang Hanzhang really has no weapons, although there are 100,000 horses, but only ordinary people have weapons, Wang Hanzhang plans to wait for the expeditionary force to kill the Japanese army in Burma, Equip soldiers with captured Japanese-style equipment.
Now there is such a thing, which is just to solve the problem of the equipment of the troops, and a group of big-headed soldiers heard that they were going to India to see the big wave girl and have better weapons, so they had already shouted that they would leave early.
Wang Hanzhang directly sent the troops in northern Burma to the past, these are the soldiers who were trained at the beginning, and after three months of training, the soldiers have no problems except that they have not killed anyone and have no combat experience. In order to quickly become an army, Wang Hanzhang has invested a lot in training, and these efforts will naturally not be in vain, and Wang Hanzhang naturally needs to see results.
Under the stimulus of material and promotion, the soldiers are also very hard-working, one is harder than the other, a large number of positions lack officers, a squad leader has ten people staring, a platoon commander has more than 30 people staring, and more than 100 people are staring at the post of deputy company commander, and the competition is very fierce.
The British very much expected the expeditionary force to send people as soon as possible, so they did not wait for the expeditionary force to go, and sent all the cars that could be dispatched to transport the expeditionary force over, so that the British did not pay attention to the fact that there were four divisions of men who had nothing but a military body, let alone guns.
It has to be said that the speed of the British is very fast, and the expeditionary force is also very active, everyone worked together, and in only three days, most of the army arrived in Imphal.
When reviewing the expeditionary force, looking at the military discipline and momentum of the expeditionary force, he secretly felt that it was much stronger than the British army.
Wavell asked what was going on, and the commander of the expeditionary force commanding this force had already communicated with Wang Hanzhang, and he told Wavell that these unarmed troops were soldiers of the expeditionary force's recruit training division, and they were originally used to supplement the expeditionary force, so they did not have weapons.
Wavell said, "Don't you train? ”
The commander said: "Of course it will, but it uses some captured Japanese-style equipment, which is already short of ammunition, and after training, it is almost exhausted, so not everyone has weapons, so I simply came to India to receive equipment." ”
Wavell scolded the expeditionary force for being shameless, having already asked for so many supplies, and now sending 50,000 people to receive weapons, ammunition, as well as clothing and other materials, and not knowing that dozens of warehouses would be empty, and it would not work if they were not given. He also secretly scolded himself for asking, wouldn't it be better to wait directly for the expeditionary force to ask him! At least I can be an uncle for a while.
The commander of the expeditionary force looked at Wavell's face and knew that this old guy was deflated, and he felt very comfortable in his heart, he had been suppressed by foreigners for hundreds of years, and he was ridden on his head, and it was really an honor to see foreign devils deflated with his own eyes.
The commander of the expeditionary force said to Wavell: "General Wavell, I originally wanted to tell you, since you are here, please arm them as soon as possible, although they are new soldiers, they can't attack, but it should be no problem to defend, you drive the devils out of India as soon as possible, and we will go home early." ”
Wavell's face turned pale, and he said to the adjutant for a long time, "You make arrangements, Tom!" After returning, Wavell kept cursing the expeditionary force.
And all the things of the expeditionary force, poison collars, even bedding, toiletries, and food and utensils, the British in charge of distributing them looked at the warehouses empty one after another, and felt uncomfortable in their hearts, it was too painful.
Most of the materials were in Imphal, and at the same time, the supplies destined for China were also transferred from here, so the next day Wang Hanzhang's 50,000-strong army received four divisions of all-American equipment. The soldiers were playing with their new weapons, and their hearts were happy, but there was a little less artillery. But the British did not distribute the transport cars to Wang Hanzhang's army.
The expeditionary force told the British that a large number of soldiers could drive cars and tanks, and hoped to give some tanks and cars, especially cars, otherwise in case of encountering the Japanese army, the war could not be transported by manpower, and cars were the best means of transportation.
The British thought, "Oh my God! It's so shameless, is there anyone more shameless? If the Chinese ** people can guess their thoughts, they will definitely refute: "Of course there is, it's you British, obviously we are here to help you defend India, and you don't even want to send some supplies, it's too picky, we don't care about you repeatedly trapping us!" ”
The British quartermaster immediately thought that Wavell had reported the situation of the expeditionary force, and Wavell angrily scolded: "Shameless, shameless, shameless." But in the end, I had to agree to this request.
If it weren't for the fact that these people were here to help defend India, Wavell would have wanted to kill the expeditionary force directly, and the best outcome would have been to starve the expeditionary force to death.
So a large number of motorcycles and cars were given to the expeditionary force, and there were actually a few tanks, although the British army did not want them, but they were still treasures for the soldiers, there was no way that their own country did not have them, and the Americans supported them less, and whoever saw them was a treasure.
The rifles issued by the British army to the expeditionary force were enough, but there were still very few heavy machine guns, and the artillery only had mortars, and there was no direct fire, and Wavell's idea was that these people were just here to rescue and scare the Japanese, not to fight, and the real war was still fighting the Japanese in Burma, so there was no need to give so much equipment, it would be good to have a gun per person, not to mention that mortars were also given a lot.
Wavell knew that the weapons given out could not be recovered, and the Japanese army might not hit Imphal, the possibility was too small, if it weren't for the fear that the main force of the British army would go to the hinterland of India, worried that the Japanese would come back to sneak attack, or the Indians would rebel, the British really didn't want the squadron to come.