Zheng Lishan's mood is very complicated, in the Burma battlefield, the British ** team concubine Yu "Ren Tuoqiang, Fleet Street blamed the defeat of the British ** team on the selfishness of the squadron, after the victory of Lashio, this accusation weakened slightly, the Chongqing press took advantage of the situation to fight back, mocking the British in front of the Japanese will run away, no other skills, although London is still supporting Alexander, but Churchill has asked him to make efforts to restore the prestige of the British ** team. \、Qｂ⑤.coM\

In order to achieve this goal, London decided to transfer three divisions from the Middle East, the 26th Division, the 81st West African Division, and the 5th Indian Division, and transfer the Anglo-Australian 19th Division, which was originally scheduled to be transferred to Egypt, to Burma, to rebuild the annihilated Anglo-Indian 17th Division, build a new 7th Indian Division, and assemble 100,000 British ** troops on the Indo-Burmese border.

According to this number of troops, plus the Chinese expeditionary force, the allies had 300,000 troops in Burma, while the Japanese army had only 50,000 troops.

Alexander drew up a counteroffensive plan, in which the squadron attacked from north to south, along the Yangla railway, and the British attacked along the coast, from west to east, and then flanked the Japanese troops assembled in central Burma.

What worries Alexander a little is Zhuang Jihua's attitude, from the Ren'anqiang incident, he has fully understood that Zhuang Jihua is a difficult person to control, and because of the victory in Lashio, his prestige is even higher, if he does not agree, then everything will come to naught.

In order to persuade Zhuang Jihua, Alexander first found Stilwell, who was in a strange position, he was Alexander's subordinate in Peniten, but he was Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff, and had the power to command all the allied forces in Burma. But Shi Qiwei knew very well that without the consent of Zhuang Jihua and Alexander, he could not command a single soldier in Burma.

Stilwell advocated attacking after the victory in Lashio, but was ruthlessly denied by Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua clearly told him that without more than three months of replenishment, it was impossible to carry out a counteroffensive, and the two sides quarreled again, and then Shi Qiwei reported to Washington and asked to remove Zhuang Jihua. Before Washington's decision arrived, Alexander came over with his battle plan, which satisfied Shi Qiwei's desire to attack, and he was immediately attracted by this plan, but he believed that the 100,000 British troops should be divided into two routes, one along the coast, and the other from northwest Burma down the Chindun River, outflanking the left flank of Mandalay, with the United States Air Volunteers and the British Royal Air Force providing air cover.

Although Alexander was reluctant to make such an adjustment, the risk of attacking along the coast was that the Japanese had a strong navy that could land at any time to cut off the British rear, so it was necessary to maintain a strong covering force on the flanks; But in order to gain Stilwell's support, he agreed to Stilwell's suggestion.

So the two came to the headquarters of the Lashio Expeditionary Force together, but they didn't expect Zhuang Jihua to be there, Yu Jishi accompanied them to drink tea in the small conference room, and this drink lasted for two hours.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for footsteps to come from the door, Zhuang Jihua pushed the door in, and the people in the house stood up, but seeing Zhuang Jihua's face, the three of them couldn't help but chuckle on their faces, Yu Jishi knew that he went up and asked Song Yunfei in a low voice, Zhuang Jihua sighed softly.

Alexander and Stilwell had a strange thought at the same time, they were not Zhuang Jihua's superiors, but Zhuang Jihua's subordinates, waiting here for Zhuang Jihua's reception, waiting for his assessment of their Tsego's battle plan, if he did not agree, the attack would not have happened.

"General Alexander, General Stilwell" Zhuang Jihua's tone was calm, but Yu Jishi felt the suppressed impatience and coldness inside, and his mind quickly moved, ready to calm their quarrel: "I don't know what is important, I bother the two of you to come to my headquarters together." ”

Alexander smiled gently, he picked up the battle plan from the table and handed it to Zhuang Jihua, this action made that feeling deeper.

"This is a counteroffensive plan that we have drawn up, and we think that according to this battle plan, we can recover Rangoon and open up the Yunnan-Burma road."

Alexander knew very well that the most urgent thing for the Chinese side was to open the Yunnan-Burma road and regain the port of Yangon, which would shorten thousands of kilometers of transportation routes.

Zhuang Jihua picked up Ji Fa and looked at it at a glance, paused a little on the last page, revealing a hint of mockery, then closed the document, put it on the table, looked up and said: "This plan is not feasible." ”

Stilwell could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, his face turned red, his eyes were wide, his eyebrows were upside down, and the green tendons on his neck jumped. With a three-way attack, there is a good chance of recovering Rangoon. ”

Zhuang Jihua raised his eyebrows, and said angrily: "Liangzhen, look at our troops, the new Eighth Army has been crippled, Meiyu Ou can't recover its combat effectiveness in half a year, the 58th Army is semi-crippled, and it will need to be repaired for at least three months, and the current situation is all supported by the 103rd Army and the Kou Army, but what about their materials?" So far, it is not even half, and it will take three months just to replenish enough supplies. And besides, 100,000 British troops, General Alexander, where are these 100,000? ”

"Our offensive is not going to start tomorrow," Alexander calmly explained! "The repair and replenishment of the troops in two months should have been completed, and then half a month's deployment will be carried out, so that we can launch an offensive in early September."

Zhuang Jihua nodded slightly, and asked directly: "During this period, have you considered the changes in the Japanese army?" ”

"The Japanese army will definitely increase its troops in Burma," Alexander said, "but from the perspective of the whole strategy, the Japanese forces are already insufficient, and he can increase the number of divisions to Burma at most, that is, 50,000 to 60,000 people, so that the total strength of the Japanese army in Burma is only 120,000 to 150,000, while our total strength is as high as 300,000, which is a sufficient superiority."

Zhuang Jihua sneered in his heart, Alexander's seems to have done his homework, but unfortunately he underestimated the Japanese and overestimated himself. For three months, the Japanese could draw enough troops from China, from the battlefields of Soviet Russia, from the battlefields of the Philippines, and from the battlefields of the East Indies to Burma; The Japanese Navy will also gather on the shores of Burma.

Zhuang Jihua thought about it and asked: "What about the materials?" According to my knowledge of China's logistics, it is impossible to provide enough supplies for 200,000 people in three months, and I am afraid that even ammunition will not be able to fully replenish it. Alexander was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, it seems that what Zhuang Jihua wants is supplies.

He hurriedly said: "Shut up the supplies, General Shi Qiwei can help." ”

Stilwell exhaled heavily, Yu Jishi interjected in time to give him time to stabilize his emotions, although Zhuang Jihua's attitude softened, it was really difficult to hide his disgust for this person, and he said coldly: "In terms of logistics, I can allocate some of the American aid materials to meet the needs of the expeditionary force." ”

"General Shi Qiwei, I hope, no, I ask that this part of the materials is not transferred from the materials that were originally transferred to the Chinese battlefield Zhuang Jihua No matter what Stilwell and Alexander think, they began to ask for a sky-high price, Yu Jishi knew with his toes what was going to happen next.

Of course, Zhuang Jihua began to bargain and opened a huge list of supplies, from gasoline and diesel, to aircraft, tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery. and then to the military uniforms and food, Alexander's face became worse and worse, and these materials had to be transferred from the supplies allocated to the British.

"No, no, no" Alexander finally couldn't help but intervene: "General Zhuang, I know that your country is short of supplies, but our army's supplies are also tight, you can't take everything." ”

Zhuang Jihua glanced at him lightly, and said in his heart that now you are begging me, if you don't take the opportunity to knock on the bamboo, wouldn't you be sorry for the martyrs who sacrificed, he spread his hands and said helplessly: "But without these materials, our army is powerless to attack."

"Your soldiers are accustomed to fighting in a situation where supplies are scarce, but our soldiers do not have such ability, they are accustomed to fighting in conditions of abundant supplies, Alexander is very eager, and Stilwell seems to agree to anything in order to achieve a counteroffensive in Burma.

At this time, not only Zhuang Jihua's heart was on fire, but Yu Jishi's heart was also on fire, why did the British soldiers have to ensure that the supplies were abundant, and the Chinese soldiers had to fight in the case of shortage of materials?

Zhuang Jihua's face sank, he stood up, pointed out the window and said loudly, glaring at Alexander and saying word by word: "My soldiers wiped out 70,000 Japanese at a huge price. General, go and see, they are full of flesh and blood! They went forward one after another, they were not afraid of the bullets coming from the head, they were not afraid of the shells falling from the sky, they were fighting on an empty stomach, the bullets were gone, they would use bayonets, they would use wooden sticks, but they eliminated the Japanese, what about the valuable ** team? In Ringanqiang, tens of thousands of noble ** troops surrendered to the Japanese, who were twice or even three times as numerous as them! Let the brave warriors have no weapons, but let the cowards who only know how to flee and surrender be well equipped! Please tell me".

"This victory was not won by the soldiers of your country, who could do nothing but flee; It was not American supplies that were bought in exchange, but the lives of my soldiers." Zhuang Jihua almost roared at Alexander, he remembered the gunshots of Shaji, the crowd of people who were dodging in a hurry, and the blood stains on the bluestone pavement. This group of damn Brits, Lao Tzu is just going to take off all your arrogance and trample you under your feet, Zhuang Jihua roared in his heart.

Alexander's face was blue and red for a while, and the aristocratic posture on his body was gone, and his reserve was long gone, and his face was only ashamed.

Seeing that Yu Jishi clearly didn't want to intervene, Stilwell had no choice but to stand up: "General Zhuang, we are here to seek cooperation, not to accept your humiliation, I hope you can maintain basic respect for your allies."

"Respect!" Zhuang Jihua asked coldly: "People must humiliate themselves, and they will humiliate them; From the very beginning of the war in Burma, they harbored evil intentions. I ask you, do you treat us as equals? Do you really want to counterattack Burma? Or is it just a desire to use us to drag the Japanese, as they did two months ago? ”

In these two days, there are more things to do during the day. There was no time codeword, so I had to put it in the evening.

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