The Americans quickly replied to the Chinese government and decided to give full support to China to continue fighting in Burma, and the US government did not delay in the slightest, because now is not the time to delay, and if it hesitates, China will probably withdraw its troops.

Chiang Kai-shek and others didn't expect the Americans to agree so quickly this time, but he also had a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh, that is, Stilwell, Stilwell came to fight for military power before the expeditionary force went, and a lot of things happened between them, which has always made Chiang Kai-shek very unhappy, these days Stilwell's behavior in Burma has caused public outrage, the British retreated, everyone thinks that Stilwell knew in advance, but he can conceal the expeditionary force, of course, this kind of betrayal of the expeditionary force, but also Chiang Kai-shek's most important Fifth Army, Sixth Army, Naturally, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't bear it, the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army were the meat of Lao Chiang's heart, if it weren't for the fact that Burma was too important, who would want to take it out, Stilwell obviously didn't take the squadron seriously, if the British army was treated like this, he would have endured it, the key is that Stilwell didn't.

Chiang Kai-shek thought that it was most appropriate to take advantage of this gap to replace Stilwell, so he had a magic weapon to denounce Stilwell's series of behaviors, and in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, Stilwell was synonymous with selfishness and incompetence.

Roosevelt and Marshall looked at Chiang Kai-shek's request, and at the same time compared Stilwell's actions in Burma, and felt that although Stilwell did not make any contributions during this time, he was just a bare-bones commander, and many things were out of his control, and Roosevelt would not listen to the words of Chiang Kai-shek and others.

Roosevelt and Marshall consulted for a while, believing that the situation in Burma was tense and it was too late to replace him, so he rejected Chiang Kai-shek, but promised to give more in terms of materials.

Chiang Kai-shek's goal was not achieved, but he did not want the expeditionary force to be held hostage by Stilwell, causing Burma heavy losses, so Chiang Kai-shek transferred Luo Zhuoying back and reappointed the original first commander of the expeditionary force, General Wei Lihuang, who had not yet arrived.

Wei Lihuang is known as a tiger general, which shows that this person is extremely far-sighted and can fight well, which is definitely not comparable to a speculative person like Luo Zhuoying, and Wei Lihuang will naturally not let Stilwell go unto him, so Lao Jiang can rest assured.

In March 1941, Wei Lihuang was summoned to Chongqing to report on his work. Jiang rebuked Wei for his relationship with the Eighth Route Army in the First Theater and declared that he would be removed from the post of chairman of Henan Province. In May, the emergency military situation on the front line was suddenly obtained, and the Zhongtiao Mountain was lost, and I was very uneasy. He knew very well that the situation in Zhongtiao Mountain was dangerous and related to the safety of both sides of the Yellow River. He rushed back to Luoyang day and night, and immediately arranged troops to prepare for the battle of recovering Zhongtiao Mountain. A staff officer reported to him: "The Japanese artillery fire is fierce, and it is inevitable that the troops attacking the mountain will have suffered too much and it will not be easy to win." "Wei Nai worked with staff officers and artillerymen, engineers and other technicians to study how to reduce the lethality of enemy artillery fire. As a result, a temporary defense tool was created that could be carried, covering the trenching operations of the troops. Wei ordered the attacking troops to quickly imitate and advance with the attack. This tool was used in the reconquest of Nakajo Mountain. played a role, not only to cover themselves, but also to inflict heavy losses on the enemy. Later in continuous improvement it was called the "active fortress". After the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain severely damaged the Japanese army, Wei Lihuang led his troops to implement a strategic shift.

At noon on October 4, Zhengzhou was lost. Wei Lihuang convened a military meeting at and above the army and division commander level. Wei pointed out that Sun Tongxuan, the commander stationed in Zhengzhou, was negligent in his duties and ordered him to lead the Third Army Corps, which was responsible for recovering Zhengzhou. Sun Tongxuan commanded three divisions of the whole corps and desperately pounced on Zhengzhou. Wei Lihuang also went to the front line to supervise the battle. After a day and night of fighting, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated to Zhongmu, and Zhengzhou was lost and regained. Wei stationed in Longhai Garden, Zhengzhou City, inspected the bleak scene after the destruction of the city by the Japanese army, and deployed defensive tasks, and then returned to Luoyang by special car. He was at Luoyang West Railway Station and was warmly welcomed by tens of thousands of citizens in Luoyang. The people shouted the slogan "Warmly welcome the triumphant return of Chief Wei" and sang the song "Chief Wei, command well": "The Zhongtiao Mountain is high and high, and if the commander of Wei is well commanded, the planes cannot be bombarded, and the artillery cannot be defeated." The activity fortress is powerful, we defend it firmly and firmly, and the devils have nowhere to escape, nowhere to escape!"

From this incident, it can be seen that Wei Lihuang's combat is only talented, Lao Jiang is also a clear-eyed person, although some people are very loyal, but their ability is mediocre, although some people are difficult to control, but they are indeed very talented, and if you want to fight in Burma, you need talents like Wei Lihuang, and give it to others, Lao Jiang is not at ease.

In September 1939, the Chongqing Nationalist Government announced that Wei Lihuang was also the chairman of the Henan Provincial Government. Not long after taking office, he suddenly received a call from his sister Shuru from Chengdu, and the bad news that his wife Zhu Yunheng had died of illness in Chengdu. With grief in his heart, he flew to Chengdu, comforted Mrs. Song, and instructed his sister-in-law Shen Shusen to send his daughter Daoyun and son Daoran to Luoyang, and he flew back to Luoyang on the original plane. During the period when Wei was in charge of Henan, he had closer contacts with the senior commanders of the Eighth Route Army, the leader of the ** army. The Eighth Route Army had an office in Luoyang. Whenever Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai, as well as **, Bo Yibo, Xiao Ke, Zuo Quan and others came to Luoyang, Wei Lihuang personally greeted them, set up banquets to entertain them, and entertained them to watch the play.

Due to the power struggle between factions within the Kuomintang, Wei Lihuang was charged for years during his tenure as commander of the First Theater and chairman of Henan Province. The spies of the military command and the central command had long seen that Wei Lihuang, who was in power, was not pleasing to the eye, and sued Chiang Kai-shek on the grounds that Wei Lihuang was "protecting the first and harboring different intentions". Dai Li, the head of the secret service, also flew to Luoyang to collect the so-called "materials" between Wei and **, and arrested some progressive innocent youths.

Tang Enbo and Jiang Dingwen salivated over the "beauty shortage" of the chairman of Henan Province and repeatedly sued. In the summer of 1941, Chiang Kai-shek removed Wei Lihuang from the rank of general. At the end of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek used the method of ascending and descending secretly, dismissed the commander of the First Theater of Defense, and transferred him to the post of director of the general office of the northwest camp in Xi'an. Jiang Dingwen was appointed commander of the First Theater, Tang Enbo was appointed deputy commander, and chairman of Henan Province was appointed to assume the military and political power of the First Theater.

In the spring of 1942, when Wei Lihuang left Luoyang to go to Xi'an to take up the post of director of the general office of the Xi'an Northwest Battalion, when he left the Luoyang Governor's Headquarters by car and went to the railway station to pass through the city. It has been sent by more than 100,000 people from all walks of life in Luoyang, burning incense and sending each other, and the situation is extremely enthusiastic for this anti-Japanese tiger general who was stripped of his military power because of his outstanding military achievements, this kind of thing only happened when a Taoist platform in the former Qing Dynasty left office! Wei Lihuang himself also has a sense of reluctance. When his car drove out of Luoyang West Station, he ordered the driver to turn the car into the East Garden where he originally lived before leaving.

Wei Lihuang knew that his transfer to the director of the Northwest Battalion was a set of tactics by Chiang Kai-shek's envoys. Although he wanted to let go, Jiang Ling was unable to resist, so he had to go to Xi'an to take up his post to avoid the rigidity of the situation. After Wei left Luoyang for Xi'an, his relatives, old and senior staff moved to Chengdu one after another. This is the retreat location that Wei Lihuang has chosen in advance. Wei Lihuang served in Xi'an for only one month, and then went to Chengdu to relax.

On April 27, Wei Lihuang received a telegram asking him to take up the post of commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force. Not for Chiang Kai-shek, but for the Chinese nation.

However, when Wei Lihuang was still at home, when the British were defeated on the southern front, the 200th Division in Lashio in the north was nervously searching for the Japanese army, and on April 25, the 200th Division search team exchanged fire with the Japanese commando, and there were casualties on both sides, and other squads also found the Japanese assault team, and everyone knew that the Japanese army's pursuit force was not far away.

On April 27, part of Li Zhipeng's 36th Division arrived in Lashio, and the Yunnan-Burma Highway was crowded with vehicles carrying supplies and fleeing overseas Chinese, and the army was scattered, but the pressure on the arrival of another part of the 200th Division was much less.

The Japanese originally wanted to sneak attack Lashio, cut off the retreat of the expeditionary force, and seize the logistics base of the expeditionary force, but they did not expect the expeditionary force to find out, so they slowed down, from the 25th to the 27th, both sides were small units of contact battles, and the people of the 56th division knew that the guard unit of Lashio was the 200th division of the Kunlun Pass Battle and the Tonggu Campaign, and the name of the 200th division had long been thunderous, so they did not dare to advance lightly, the combat effectiveness of the 200th division, Without heavy weapons, they didn't dare to go to that mildew easily.

However, the outposts sent by the two sides fought very fiercely, but most of the time it was the devils who were unlucky, in addition to the machine guns, the rest were rifles of the 38 big cover class, but the search troops of the 200th Division carried most submachine guns, strong firepower, and the will to be more fearless than the Japanese army.

The cautious behavior of the 56th Division also laid the foundation for their later demise, while the 200th Division had more time to prepare for fortifications.

On April 28, Wei Lihuang flew to Mandalay to pick up the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, Wang Hanzhang knew that Wei Lihuang took over, and the whole person was much easier, Wei Lihuang can be called Chiang's "battlefield firefighter", whenever the battle situation is not easy to solve, Chiang always sends him to solve the problem. The reason why Wei Lihuang was not reused was because he was not from the Whampoa department, and he had a lot of complaints about Chiang's policies and was partial to ** everywhere, so Chiang did not trust him, and he would not use it until he had to, and Chiang Kai-shek even pulled Wei Lihuang out, which was enough to prove Chiang Kai-shek's determination.