Thomas poured three glasses of wine and brought them to the table, and Webb and another officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel reached out to take them. \。 He picked up a glass and sat down in his chair.

"Wavell's purpose is clear, he just doesn't want the squadron to enter Myanmar, in their opinion China is more dangerous than Japan, for hundreds of years. Myanmar has always paid tribute to China's central government. Burmese people identify more with China. Webb's calm tone contained a hint of sarcasm.

"But if there is no squadron, what will the British do to defend Burma, and India, once the Japanese army occupies Burma, the Indian National Congress Party will make trouble in India again, I'm afraid they won't even be able to hold India." The lieutenant colonel is still incomprehensible.

"Simmons, the situation should get worse. General Zhuang Jihua believed that the British would probably not be able to hold Singapore, and that without the help of the Chinese, they would not be able to hold Burma. The red liquid shook in the glass, and Webb was now somewhat calm.

After he returned from western Yunnan, he heard that a five-day meeting was being held in Chongqing, so he rushed to the US Embassy to inquire about the news, but he did not expect to meet Simmons, who was a military attache at the consulate in Shanghai when Lieutenant Colonel Simmons was still a captain, and it was there that they met. Thomas, on the other hand, became friends because they shared the same understanding of the Sino-Japanese War.

"You're talking about General Zhuang Jihua?" Simmons asked, Webb nodded, Simmons was transferred to the Philippines before the start of the Sino-Japanese War, served under MacArthur, and only recently went to Chongqing with the head of the U.S. delegation, Magrud to attend the Fifth Conference.

"I've heard of him, and Shi said that he was the best of the Chinese generals, and that he had defeated all the Japanese generals, including Terauchi Shouichi, Yamashita Fumi, and Honma Masaharu."

The three people mentioned by Simmons are the main generals of the current Japanese attack on the South Seas, Terauchi Shouichi is the commander of the Southern Army, Yamashita Fumi is responsible for attacking the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, and Honma Masaharu is attacking the Philippines.

"That's right." Thomas said: "General Zhuang's record is impressive. Proof of the four-year war. The president's decision to provide them with $300 million in weapons and equipment and to list China as the initiator of the United Nations Declaration and become one of the four major powers was far-sighted. ”

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, at Roosevelt's initiative, more than 20 countries, including China, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, signed the Joint Nations Declaration in Washington. The signatories expressed their endorsement of the Atlantic Charter, fought together against the Axis powers, and did not negotiate armistice agreements and contracts with the enemy countries alone.

The United Nations Declaration was developed on the basis of the Atlantic Charter, and the founding countries were only the United States and Britain, but Roosevelt, in order to expand the base, added Soviet Russia and China to form the four powers of the United States Declaration. Britain initially strongly opposed the inclusion of China, but Roosevelt insisted. China's importance to global strategy is an important part of the war and the maintenance of post-war world peace. He persuaded Churchill that China became one of the initiators of the United Nations Declaration and one of the five permanent members of the United Nations.

"Mr. Weber, you came back from western Yunnan, and I heard that General Zhuang Jihua was also there, can you talk about what you have seen and heard in western Yunnan?" Simmons said.

Weber's expression was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled calmly: "Simmons, in my opinion, the squadron is ready to fight in Burma, General Zhuang will command this army, and I estimate that they have assembled three armies in western Yunnan." In the words of the Chinese. They entered Burma, everything was ready, only the east wind was owed, and they could enter Burma tomorrow as long as the British agreed. Simmons nodded, but Webb was not done, and he continued: "However, as far as I can see, most of these troops are newly formed, and the most elite troops in China are still in northern Hubei. Five theaters of war. For example, the 49th Group Army and the 36th Group Army, they defeated the Japanese in Nanjing, Xuzhou, and Zaoyang. ”

Thomas raised his legs and said thoughtfully: "In this way, the Chinese did not plan to repel the Japanese in Burma, their purpose is likely to hold northern Burma, relying on the terrain here to establish a defensive line to ensure the safety of Yunnan." ”

"There is a possibility that in our view, the Yunnan-Burma Highway is China's main artery to the outside world, but it is not the only artery, China began construction of the "Tibet Highway" a year before the Lugou Bridge incident. Now it is about to be repaired to the Tibet-India border, and it is estimated that it will be repaired to India by the beginning of spring this year at the latest. China's dependence on the Yunnan-Burma Highway has been greatly reduced. Webb thought and said that he now had some faith in it, and the Chinese knew it years ago. The Japanese would certainly go south, and Burma would probably not be able to hold it, so they did whatever it took to build the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, which at the time seemed to be aimed at the British attempt on Tibet, but now it seems that the purpose was even more far-reaching.

Simmons couldn't help but laugh, this is a kind of angry laughter, and the two countries that are in the most dangerous situation are fighting their own ideas, but the safer United States is the hardest-working.

"This situation must be reported to Huasheng Hui, and the weeping gang is called Hua Wu. When everyone was calculating, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I got up and said to Thomas, "I'll take my leave first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Thomas knew that the military delegation was going on a lot. He didn't hold back, got up and saw him off. Simmons hurried back to the military mission. Lieutenant General Magrud was working on a report to Washington, which had left him with exhaustion from five days of meetings that had resulted in several agreements of intent and no progress on the most critical aspects of the war in Burma

"This arrogant Englishman". Magrud thought of Wavell's face, and couldn't help but want to scold a few words, in his opinion, in the dispatch of troops to Burma, Chiang Kai-shek had done his best, even if Wavell was very arrogant, but he still behaved very restrained.

"Mr. President, now it seems that progress can only be made at a higher political level, and there is no hope of a solution in Chongqing, where the British and their stubbornness, who are completely oblivious to the dangers facing Burma

"Bang bang." There was a knock at the door, but Magrud didn't look up: "Come in." Simmons pushed the door open: "General, I got a situation." ”

Magrud looked up at him, and his face was very unhappy when he was interrupted from his train of thought: "Lieutenant Colonel, what is the situation that makes you so anxious?" ”

"I'm very sorry, but I met Mr. Webb of the Washington Observer at the embassy, he has just returned from western Yunnan, and he has found something interesting in western Yunnan, and I think I should report it to you." Simmons is at ease.

"So tell me, what's going on? Magrud suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and was a little alert in his heart, Yunnan West set up Burma, and China sent troops to Burma as a bridgehead.

"The squadron has assembled three armies in western Yunnan, but these three armies are new troops, not the elite of the squadron, and their elite is still in the fifth theater, that is, in northern Hubei; According to his judgment, the purpose of the Chinese is to hold northern Myanmar and build a defensive line for Yunnan, and we overestimate the importance of the Yunnan-Burma highway to China, and they also have a road to India, from Sichuan to Lhasa, and then to India, this highway, the Chinese have been building for five years. ”

Simmons gave a detailed report to Magrud about what Webb had seen and analyzed, and Magrud was silent for a while, and then asked Simmons out, Simmons was confused and didn't know what he would do.

After Simmons went out, Magrud looked at his report, froze for a long time, grabbed it violently and tore it to pieces, he fully understood the meaning of the situation provided by Simmons, the Chinese have the Sichuan-Tibet road, so they are not worried about Burma, the British do not want them to fight in Burma, they simply push the boat down the river.

"These bunch of crumbs." Magrud had the same thought as Simmons and was on the verge for a long time. He finally sat down at his desk and rewrote the report. "To sum up, Mr. President. China and Britain have their own plans for Myanmar, I think. What China means is that if you can hold Yangon. China will send troops to Burma, and if it can't, China will probably only stay on the border with Myanmar. Or occupy northern Burma and ensure the security of western Yunnan, so the most important thing at the moment is the British, Mr. President, we are racing against time, in the footsteps of the Japanese, Yangon has not fallen before China will be willing to send troops, otherwise, China's attitude is likely to change

"Mr. President, I suggest that a chief of staff should be sent to the Chinese theater as soon as possible, because there are many contradictions between China and Britain, and we can only coordinate with the United States. Otherwise, the war situation in Southeast Asia is likely to be eroded, and from the worst point of view, the Japanese army is likely to enter India

Magrud's pessimistic report sent shockwaves through Washington, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff quickly determined the choice of chief of staff for the Chinese theater, and Joseph Warren Shi was reassigned to China as chief of staff of the Chinese theater.

Roosevelt sent a telegram to Churchill asking about Britain's vision of the war situation in Burma, "Mr. Prime Minister, I have to remind you that your country has only two underrepresented divisions in Burma, while Japan has amassed an army of 80,000 troops on the Thai-Burmese border, which even exceeds the number of Japanese troops attacking Singapore. On the contrary, China has amassed 130,000 troops in Yunnan, and another 50,000 troops are marching for western Yunnan, so why should he not be allowed to fight for our common cause? ”

Not to mention that Roosevelt didn't understand, even Churchill didn't know what Wavell thought, and he and Brooke, the chief of the British General Staff, jointly called Wavell. Ask him about his handling of the war in Burma.

"We are well aware that we will not be able to massively increase our troops in Burma for the time being, and if China does not send troops to Burma, the Japanese army will likely easily rush into India. In order to encircle India, we should all let China send troops to Burma

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