After pondering for a moment, Zhuang Jihua said to Gong Xiuhua: "Call back Fu Chang, the prospect of the Henan war situation is dangerous, and the defense of Wuhan is mainly to consume the vital strength of the army to ensure that the main force of our army is not encircled and annihilated. ”

Gong Xiuhua turned around and went out to send a telegram, Li Anding saw that Zhuang Jihua was in a bad mood and comforted: "Cultural Revolution, you are thousands of miles away, what can you do?" Jiang Dingwen is no longer Jiang Dingwen during the Eastern Crusade, principal..., if you interfere too much, the principal may not be happy. ”

"I think it's okay if you lose, the big waves are sweeping the sand, Jiang Dingwen is actually no longer suitable to lead troops, senior, I think the principal is likely to reactivate you after the fall of Wuhan." Shi Guantao's tone was a little gloating, Li Anding had an accident in Fujian, Jiang Dingwen was responsible, and it may even be the result of his secret connivance or cooperation, not only Li Anding was the victim, but the classmates who participated in the Inspirational Club were all hurt to varying degrees, these people had long been dissatisfied with Jiang Dingwen in their hearts, and secretly hoped that he would be unlucky.

"It's hard to say." Li Anding added a sentence without being salty, but Zhuang Jihua didn't seem to hear it, he frowned and thought about it: "I just hope that the loss in this defeat is not too big, Wuhan can't hold it, and the troops must not lose too much." First, now we have to face the situation after the fall of Wuhan. ”

Li Anding sighed in his heart again, Zhuang Jihua's considerations are always one step ahead of others, when they are gloating, he is already thinking about the upcoming changes in the situation, thinking about how to deal with it, no wonder he has been able to stand tall for more than ten years, and Chiang Kai-shek always values him like that.

"Wuhan is lost, the principal will definitely go to Yucheng, and Yucheng will become the center of the Anti-Japanese War." Li Anding pondered, but his voice gradually lowered. He suddenly understood Zhuang Jihua's purpose of developing Guizhou on a large scale, and he knew that he could not confront Chiang Kai-shek, so he simply handed over Yucheng and handed it over to Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek could not think that Chiang Ching-kuo would betray him.

Zhuang Jihua's move killed three birds with one stone, on the one hand, to eliminate Chiang Kai-shek's doubts; second, to avoid a lot of attacks and put oneself out of the contradictions; Third, he pushed Chiang Ching-kuo to the pinnacle of contradictions, and when Chiang Ching-kuo had contradictions with various factions in the party in the future, he would definitely ask him for help, and then he would be able to find the right and the right and profit from it. No, there is a fourth, after the successful development of Guizhou, Zhuang Jihua has another force in his hands that can be controlled, and his position will be more stable at that time. These thoughts quickly surged out in Li Anding's mind, and he couldn't help but admire it greatly, and looked at his eyes radiating excitement.

"Well said," Zhuang Jihua didn't know what Li Anding was thinking, and followed his words and said: "This is one aspect, and the other aspect is the change in myself. After the outbreak of World War II, Germany's offensive in Europe contained the power of Britain and France, and Nanyang became a power vacuum, and due to the decline of the domestic economy, after occupying Wuhan, he would stop his large-scale military offensive against us, and his eyes would turn to Nanyang, the British and French colonies, and he would look for opportunities to take these colonies and obtain resources to continue the war. In this way, we will begin to prepare to enter Burma to fight. ”

"Captain Shi, the Border Police Corps is nominally a policeman, in fact, you train me according to the army, and the number of people must be expanded, at least doubled, don't just focus on the Han people, ethnic minorities also recruit soldiers, they are familiar with mountains and tropical jungles, and they are helpful for jungle warfare. Equipment, I'll let Lu Houde get it for you. ”

Lu Houde is the head of the logistics department's station in Yunnan, and he is also from the southwest development team, responsible for supervising the Yunnan Arsenal, and the material bureau that Kong Xiangxi is engaged in is mainly aimed at the Sichuan Development Company, and he has not been able to take care of the factories in Yunnan for the time being, and Hong Junqi is also very annoyed about weakening the power of the logistics department, and he found Chiang Kai-shek several times to make trouble, and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the increase in a level, so the arsenal in Yunnan is still controlled by the logistics department and is under the control of Lu Houde, and Zhuang Jihua is sure to say that he has obtained weapons.

"Yes, it is guaranteed to be doubled within half a year." Shi Guantao was very excited, but Zhuang Jihua glared at him coldly, which made him a little inexplicable, in fact, Zhuang Jihua was a little dissatisfied with what he said just now, Jiang Dingwen commanded the troops he left behind, those troops are all experienced in a hundred battles, and they are China's first-class army, and the loss of that one makes him heartache.

"How many years have you not led a soldier to war?" Zhuang Jihua asked.

Shi Guantao froze suddenly, and couldn't answer in half a ring, Li Anding saw that he was a little embarrassed, so he relieved him of the siege: "Guantao was the regiment commander when he suppressed bandits, but he didn't lead troops for five or six years, and during the Cultural Revolution, we seriously lacked cadres here." ”

There is a shortage of cadres with combat experience, and Huang Botao has already begun to promote soldiers to low-level officers; from Zhuang Jihua's point of view, experienced soldiers can be trained a little more than graduates who have just graduated from military academies in their battlefield command ability.

"Be bold in promotion, and in addition, invite those disabled soldiers of the Dian Army to come back to train recruits, and non-commissioned officers can be soldiers with outstanding performance among the recruits."

Li Anding and Shi Guantao did not dare to ignore Zhuang Jihua's opinions, not because Zhuang Jihua's military rank and status were higher than theirs, but because he was famous in the military academy for being good at military training.

"Yu Yi, there is one more thing that must be done," Zhuang Jihua solemnly turned his head to look at Li Anding: "Since you are going to fight in Myanmar, then Myanmar's terrain and climate, customs and people's conditions, road traffic, intelligence, etc., these situations must be understood first, how has Myanmar's intelligence network been built?" ”

"We have set up intelligence networks in important cities such as Yangon, Mandalay, Myitkyina and other important cities in Myanmar." Li Anding said that the first task that Zhuang Jihua sent him to western Yunnan was to establish an intelligence network in Burma: "In addition, we got in touch with the Kachin and Chan readers, but we found that we were also contacting them, and these guys were swinging between us." ”

"Xuexue Banchao, I say that I am our enemy." Zhuang Jihua smiled faintly: "There are many overseas Chinese in Burma, we must make full use of the strength of overseas Chinese, in addition, the Burma operation is a tropical jungle operation, you have to train the troops in jungle warfare, and you may be the first to carry out jungle combat training, everything depends on you to sum up, and the experience you have summed up will be used by other troops, so you must be careful and careful, your summary is likely to determine the outcome of the first war in Burma." ”

Shi Guantao suddenly felt a sense of mission, and his eyes narrowed to the map of western Yunnan and Yunnan on the wall, and the map showed northern Myanmar. After thinking about it, Li Anding asked: "If you want to fight in Burma, will the British agree?" ”

"When the time comes, they will agree, even if they want to." Zhuang Jihua said disdainfully, Li Anding remembered that Zhuang Jihua had always looked down on the British, and now that Britain was facing the attack of the Germans in Europe, it was unable to take care of Asia at all, so it naturally looked down on it even more.

Zhuang Jihua was still not at ease, and told Shi Guantao about the precautions for jungle training, how to judge the direction, how to survive, how to discover the enemy's whereabouts, how to engage the enemy, how to hide, how to give full play to the surname of the weapon, etc., repeatedly advised, so that Li Anding laughed secretly, but he didn't know that Zhuang Jihua had decided to transfer the special forces to western Yunnan for jungle warfare training.

After the palace embroidery painting came back, Zhuang Jihua was still repeatedly admonishing, and it was easy to let go of Shi Guantao. Li Anding invited Shi Guantao to his home for dinner again, Shi Guantao did not postpone, and several people went to Li Anding's house together.

After arriving home, Fang Minyi had already arranged the wine and food, and she was in the room with them, and Wu Ziniu and other entourages were in the courtyard. The climate in western Yunnan is warm, with warm winds from the Indian Ocean sweeping over the tropical jungles of Myanmar to bring warmth, and there is no real winter here, and spring flowers bloom all year round.

The night is getting thicker, and the banquet is very rich, but the inside and outside of the house are relatively quiet, and there is no such excitement at all, and the guards in the courtyard are still a little lively, but there is always a low whisper in the house.

"Yu Yi, if you work hard for another two years, if you don't leave, someone will let you go." Zhuang Jihua felt a little sorry for Li Anding, although he asked for credit in front of Chiang Kai-shek several times, but he never resolutely fought for it, so he stayed in such a difficult place as Panzhihua and western Yunnan for five or six years.

"It's okay, it's good here." Li Anding doesn't matter at all, this is actually his true mentality, although he is far from the center of power, but here he is the emperor of the soil, and everything in western Yunnan is his master.

Zhuang Jihua stared at him seriously, and only after confirming that he was telling the truth did he sigh softly: "It's good if you can see it, in the past two days, you have accompanied me to see a lot of construction sites, but you haven't said anything about the ethnic minorities in western Yunnan, let's talk about them now." ”

Li Anding nodded, in the afternoon at the power plant construction site Zhuang Jihua mentioned the minority policy, he knew that sooner or later there would be such a question, he put down his chopsticks and looked at Zhuang Jihua and said: "There are many ethnic minorities in western Yunnan, and there are more than 30 of them according to incomplete statistics, mainly Dai, Bai, Yi, Lisu are the largest among them, and the other Brown, Wa, Achang, Manchu, Jingpo, De'ang, etc., are smaller, mainly living in the nearby mountains, and rarely have contact with the outside world.

These ethnic minorities are similar to the Yi people in Xikang, they all have a Tusi system, and below the Tusi are the head people, and each village is managed by a head person. There are two Dai Tusi in Western Yunnan, Paya and Zhaolong, one Tusi of Yi Nationality, Han name Mu Xiu, and two Bai Tusi, Zhanu .......

These Tusi are more influenced by the Han culture, most of their children have received higher education in Kunming, perhaps Long Yun himself was born in the Yi nationality, and is more lenient with ethnic minorities, and has always adopted an affinity policy to encourage the upper class of ethnic minorities to receive modern education, as long as they are willing to study in Kunming, they are generally admitted, and now these people have completed their studies, most of them have returned to western Yunnan, they are more clear about the current domestic situation, and it is relatively easy to understand our policy, and they are among the ethnic groups in western Yunnan, reducing us a lot of trouble. ”

(To be continued)