Chapter 062: Tearing Your Face
Seeing the evacuation of the British, Wang Hanzhang began to suggest to Chiang Kai-shek that the Americans should increase their aid to China, and now the situation in India is not optimistic, there are so many people in India, China can no longer send extra troops, and the rest depends on the British themselves, but judging from a series of actions of the British army, it is unlikely that the British will hold India.
If India loses, then although Myanmar is in the hands of China, it will be attacked from three sides, especially on land, which is the most vulnerable to attack, and the squadron may be difficult to deal with at that time, if even weapons and ammunition are lacking, then the battle will be even less fought.
Chiang Kai-shek also felt that it was very reasonable, so he immediately discussed countermeasures with the US ambassador to China, this is not a joke, Burma is in hand, then the United States or neutral country ships can still transport supplies, but if Burma is gone, not only will there be no supplies, but even the arsenal in Sichuan will be bombed by the Japanese army, and the good anti-Japanese war situation will take a sharp turn for the worse.
And Wang Hanzhang is also in contact with Stilwell, he can fight for as much as he can, if both sides of the eastern Indian Ocean are under the control of Japan, it will not be a good thing for Wang Hanzhang, Wang Hanzhang does not even have a small gunboat, torpedo boat, what to protect the merchant ship!
However, Stilwell soon broke the news that the United States would not risk letting merchant ships sail in the eastern Indian Ocean, and that the Allies did not have enough warships to protect them, so the Japanese Navy only needed a few submarines to cause heavy losses to the United States.
Wang Hanzhang also guessed that this was the result, in fact, Wang Hanzhang did not expect the Americans to take this risk, Wang Hanzhang did this just to throw bricks and lead the jade, what Wang Hanzhang really wanted was the materials that the British hoarded in Imphal and other places.
Wang Hanzhang said: "General Stilwell, what you said is very reasonable, otherwise, you will provide more basic military technology to our country, and let the British give us the materials they have hoarded in India first, and then you will directly send the materials to Iran and directly to them, so that everyone will not be troublesome." ”
Roosevelt soon received a telegram from Stilwell, theoretically speaking, Wang Hanzhang's suggestion was very good, many of the British materials were stored by the British in the thirties, and if they could exchange the latest materials from the United States, the British should be very willing, or normal people are very willing, but the British are not normal people.
Roosevelt communicated with Churchill, Churchill refused without thinking about it, the matter of the occupation of Burma by the squadron, Churchill has always held a grudge, and there are many other things Churchill and all the British people are in their eyes, unhappy in their hearts, this time the Chinese won a big victory in Burma, the British have repeatedly suffered defeats in India, and they have suffered a lot of laughter in the international community, Churchill now does not like the Chinese in his heart, and today there is such an opportunity to damage the Chinese, he can't wait for it.
Churchill did not believe that in India, the Chinese still dared to do anything to Britain, and after saying the other words, Churchill thought about it, felt that he was too smart, and transported Imphal's materials away, and then the materials supported by the United States could not be evenly distributed to China, then all belonged to Britain, if India was lost, China's life and death of the British Empire did not care, China's life and death had nothing to do with the British Empire.
Although Roosevelt didn't want China to rise, he didn't want China to perish, China perished, then Japan would rise much faster than China, and the threat to the United States would be greater, Roosevelt still wanted to discuss it with Churchill, but Churchill always diverted the topic, and Churchill would rather talk to Roosevelt about when to land in France and defeat Germany as soon as possible, rather than talk about giving supplies to China. You must know that the last thing Churchill wanted to talk about before was landing in France.
Roosevelt looked at Churchill's meaning, I'm afraid there was no discussion, Roosevelt didn't understand Churchill's stubbornness, if Churchill did this, it was clear that he didn't care about China's life and death, I am afraid that the Chinese would soon give up on the British, if China withdrew its troops in India, then Britain could still hold India, I am afraid it would lose faster.
Roosevelt had to get Marshall to communicate with other British dignitaries, and then let the ambassador to Britain be active in the British government.
A few days later, the Americans had found nothing, and Churchill had already convinced the British high-brass, including them, the British king. Churchill's reason was very simple, he believed that the squadron would not withdraw, but would stay more resolutely to help the British resist and put down the rebellion in India.
If India is lost, it will only be a rich colony for the British Empire, but for China, there is no India, and it makes no sense for China to hold on to Burma, and China will not get any foreign aid. Therefore, China will definitely do its best to help Britain hold India, in exchange for supplies, and at the same time ensure the passage of foreign aid, so Britain can safely retaliate against what China has done before, and let the Chinese know that the British Empire is not easy to bully.
It was such a bad reason that actually won the support of 99% of the British parliament and the top management, and someone raised the if, which was directly ridiculed by Churchill and told that there was no "if".
The British insisted on making the United States have no way, although they want to hide it, but the British who evacuated the expatriates have begun to withdraw the supplies, Wang Hanzhang kept urging Stilwell and Chiang Kai-shek, should they wait for the British to withdraw the materials, and then reply to disagree?
Wang Hanzhang himself had actually prepared for the worst, or the result that Wang Hanzhang expected, although it was very risky, but it was a rare opportunity.
The Americans' reply finally came, but they were helping the British to hide the truth, they said that Britain now needs supplies very much to resist the Japanese army in India, as for China's supplies, the United States will find a way to solve it, and at the same time said that it will increase its help to China to build an arsenal, and the United States does not want China to be defeated by Japan, otherwise the United States will have to face the threat of the Japanese army alone in the Pacific.
As soon as Britain replied and the United States withdrew as before, Wang Hanzhang also proposed that the materials should be distributed to China first, and Britain would not use them all at once, but Britain refused without hesitation, Wang Hanzhang proposed to give one-third, the British also refused, Wang Hanzhang proposed one-quarter, and the British ...... Wang Hanzhang raised a fifth, the British......
Wang Hanzhang was not annoyed, he was very calm, Wang Hanzhang said in his heart, since this is the case, don't blame me for being unkind.
On January 12, Wang Hanzhang's 6 divisions, which had long been assembled on the India-Burmese border, went to Impal and other places in India, and the squadrons of Impal and Chittagong had already received orders from Wang Hanzhang, they didn't know what was going on, and Wang Hanzhang now had no superfluous explanation, Wang Hanzhang just had to obey the order.
In addition, Du Yuming's Wang Hanzhang also communicated in advance that the British would rather not give the materials to China, and now India can't hold it, and they are not willing to give a little to China, Wang Hanzhang told Du Yuming that China may withdraw them, since the British don't care about China's life or death, then there is no need for the expeditionary force to defend India for them.
Wang Hanzhang asked Du Yuming to be ready to stand by at any time, with weapons, ammunition, and food ready, because if they wanted to retreat, the British should not agree, and when the time came, they might have to fight back.
Du Yuming suffered such a big loss from the British in Burma, was repeatedly fooled and deceived by the British, and was always used as cannon fodder in India, and the British did not listen to his correct advice, and the British always took it for granted to fight, Du Yuming also felt that the British were not very likely to hold India, if it were not for the control of China's foreign aid in the hands of the British, Du Yuming would not want to give his life to the British in India.
Now the British are obviously not giving China supplies, so there is no need for the expeditionary force to waste precious ammunition and supplies, as well as the lives of tens of thousands of brothers brought out by themselves.
Du Yuming was much smarter than Wang Hanzhang imagined, originally they were fighting on the Song River, a tributary of the lower reaches of the Ganges, and after getting Wang Hanzhang's hint, he deliberately counterattacked, and then the main force gathered downstream, no matter what, the army had to cross the Ganges River and return to Burma if it was to be evacuated.
Wang Hanzhang's six divisions arrived in Imphal in less than a day, at Kohima, north of Imphal. The trained special forces have long since begun to infiltrate.
Nearly 200,000 troops of the squadron are in India, so the small number of Indian troops on the India-Burma border and their British commanders are very leisurely, they all think that the biggest threat to India now is not the squadron, but the Japanese, so they are defenseless, so that Wang Hanzhang's troops calmly bypass them.
On the evening of the 12th we arrived at Imphal and Kohima, where the airfields were full of planes carrying supplies, as well as a number of fighters and bombers for defence, while a small number of British troops were guarded only a few people.
At 12 o'clock in the evening, the squadron did not have time to rest, so it and the troops stationed here before rushed into the British camp, and the British guard post was touched before, and the British in their sleep did not understand what was going on and was captured.
The expeditionary force occupied the three large cities of Chittagong, Imphal and Kohima that night, as well as the supplies they were all over the place.
After the soldiers took control of the British, the British realized that it was the squadron that had done it to them, and they roared in protest, not at all like the good babies who had just grabbed them one by one.
The squadron didn't bother to pay attention to them at this time, since they had torn their faces, there was nothing to take care of, they just went over with the butt of a gun, and the British guys hit the British with a mouthful of teeth, and the British fancy the ** team to fight at every turn, and they are much more well-behaved.
And the troops originally stationed in Imphal, after packing up the British troops in Imphal, immediately went to Shillong and Dispur on the banks of the Brahmaputra River, where they were to occupy them before the British reacted.
After the troops took control of Imphal, they immediately sent a report to Wang Hanzhang, and Wang Hanzhang read the telegram and immediately told Du Yuming the truth by telegram.
Du Yuming broke out in a cold sweat, Wang Hanzhang is too capable of making trouble, but Wang Hanzhang's things have already been done, he can't stay here and wait for the anger of the British, Du Yuming immediately ordered the people below to control the liaison officers of the British in various ministries. Then the organized troops were crossed the Ganges and left Burma.