Chapter XXVII
Li Kongrong left after lunch at the Du Mansion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ During the info banquet, Gu Jiatang, Qi Qingrong and others from the Xiaobagu Party, as well as Du Yuesheng's protΓ©gΓ©s Zhang Zilian and Shen Chubao all came to meet. Du Men is particular about seniority, since Li Kongrong and Du Yuesheng are commensurate with brothers, then these disciples under Du Men will call him uncle, which is equivalent to Li Kongrong becoming the boss of the Green Gang in the morning. It doesn't matter if Li Kongrong is the boss of the Green Gang or not, but the Du people feel that they can have something to do with the navy, and they are all elated, their eyebrows are dancing, and the guests and hosts of this meal are happy.
However, Du Yuesheng is indeed old, he got up early in the morning to accompany the guests until now, and suddenly felt sleepy after dinner, Li Kongrong saw this and said: "I am really happy to meet Brother Sheng and all the Dumen brothers in the morning, but unfortunately the time in Hong Kong is tight, so the younger brother will ask for his resignation first." β
A large group of people sat around Du Yuesheng and Li Kongrong, and no one spoke anymore when they heard that he was leaving. Du Yuesheng yawned again and again, and when he heard this, he couldn't hold back his sleepiness and said, "Hansheng can't stay here for a few days?" β
"I'm afraid I won't be able to live here." Li Kongrong shook his head with a smile, "According to the plan, it is not easy to show your whereabouts in Hong Kong, but I have always wanted to visit, and I want to come here, and now I should leave if I get what I want." Besides, there were a lot of things to do in the early days of the navy, and there was no way out of New York, but I thought it would be better to give Mr. Wang a ride in person, so I left the United States and came back. This matter has been done, and it is time to go back as soon as possible, otherwise the navy will complain. β
Li Kongrong had a smile on his face, but when he heard him say, 'Give Mr. Wang a ride in person', so insipid that everyone present suddenly felt cold. Who would have thought that a polite and polite person would let hundreds of people die with a single order.
"Okay, okay." Du Yuesheng nodded, he got up and said, "Then I'll send Hansheng to the dock." β
"You don't have to get to the docks." Li Kongrong also got up amid the sound of chairs moving, and he said: "There are many people outside, Brother Sheng will definitely be a sensation in Hong Kong when he goes out to see off guests, if you want to send me, send me to the door." β
"Okay." Du Yuesheng didn't know this truth, he was just a little reluctant - Li Kongrong really didn't come here to ask him for help, and he was very concerned in his words, and even said that the naval aircraft could escort him. Seeing the truth with enthusiasm, he took Li Kongrong's hand and said, "If there is anything in the future, just say it, as long as I can help." β
"Of course." Li Kongrong nodded again and again, "At least when the navy recovers Shanghai in the future, I must ask Brother Sheng and all the brothers here to help, otherwise I can't handle the things in the market." β
"Good. Good. Brothers are heroic. "Although there are worries about the Communist Party winning the world, when it comes to recovering Shanghai, Du Yuesheng's fatigue has disappeared without a trace, and the people in Du Men present are even more applauded, and they are looking forward to this day in their dreams." Uncle is such a good man and a real hero! They couldn't help but praise.
"No, no. Brother, I'm just a representative of heroes. Li Kongrong hurriedly postponed, "It's like Brother Sheng is the chief leader of the reckless heroes in the rivers and lakes." It's just that everyone misunderstands the characters in the rivers and lakes, thinking that they are full of hooligans. If you want me to say, every time you slaughter dogs, most of them are readers. I would rather believe in a brother of the Green Gang who is full of 'books' than in a key member of the party-state who opens his mouth and closes his mouth about the Three People's Principles. I hope that Mr. Yang can record all the brothers who died due to the resistance against Japan in the past few years, give them a biography, praise their righteousness and fearlessness, and give the brothers innocence and justice.
It's really important. At the time of Jinshanwei's victory, everyone praised the navy for fighting well, but without the Einsatzgruppen organized by Brother Sheng to block the news, the Japanese could not have been fooled; There is also the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army, who is afraid that in the future, they will be called bullies or even traitors of the common people, who knows that the Japanese invaders hate them to the core, and who knows that they are all heroes?
I don't know what's going on inside the Loyalists for the time being, but the Navy would be happy to cooperate with them if it were possible. If they want, if they have such conditions, they can also fight with the navy to Japan, and go to Tokyo to drink flower wine and flirt with Japanese women. It's all possible. However, the situation in China will get worse and worse in the next few years, please take care, brothers, we are going to reunite in Shanghai for a drink. β
"Uncle, take care too." Everyone's tears fell when they said this. Li Kongrong gave up his hand to everyone, and everyone also gave up his hand to Li Kongrong. Du Yuesheng pulled him out of the door, and Yao Yulan gave Xu Peipei a dress back. It wasn't until the car was far away that Du Yuesheng turned around and returned to the mansion.
The winter sun in the afternoon was very comfortable, and when he was slightly drunk, Li Kongrong, who was a little excited about the ending of the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army, unconsciously hummed a Cantonese song: 'The far east, the vast frontier, and the ancient broken walls; The vicissitudes of the previous life, the scenery of the later life, thousands of miles and thousands of mountains are firmly bordered. Around the old country, around the truth of the facts, around the vast years, around the desire and ideals. The superstitious village, the mysterious center, and yesterday's battlefield......
"Sir," Li Kongrong was nostalgic, and Huang Zijian, who saw the police in front of him signaling to stop, had to wake him up.
"Lee, it's great to see you." Charles Dredge, head of MI6's Hong Kong station, got on the train and held Li Kongrong's hand, but Li Kongrong ignored him. ββ¦β¦ The emperor's new clothes, the hot-blooded baby gun, who is willing to linger and plug it. Around the old country, around the truth of the facts, around the vast years, around the desires and ideals......
"This is ......" Dreitch knew that Li Kongrong was dissatisfied with the matter in Shanghai, so he had to lick his face and ask Huang Zijian in the front seat.
"The chief should be writing a new song." Huang Zijian couldn't understand Cantonese, but he felt that the tune was beautiful, and everyone in the navy knew that the commander was that Li Nianpei, and the songs that Miss Xu sang were all written by him.
"Oh." Dreyqi had to shrug his shoulders when he heard this, he came to apologize to Li Kongrong, but this is only an apology from MI6, not on behalf of the Shanghai Ministry of Industry Bureau, let alone the government.
After getting off the car at the Kowloon Pier and ferrying, it was Hong Kong, and Li Kongrong stopped humming before he said: "Sir, I apologize deeply for what happened to you in Shanghai. Sir Memphis made me ......"
"It's better to use the Great Wall as the boundary." Drech was apologizing, but Lee Kong-young didn't answer the question.
"What? Sirγ "Drech doesn't know why, Li Kongrong speaks Min language.
"I said that it is better to use the Great Wall as the border line in the north of China, from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan. This will reduce many, many, many hassles. Li Kongrong said six 'lots' in one breath, which was his sudden emotion. If the achievements of the Loyal Salvation Army and Du Yuesheng in the War of Resistance are to be preserved, the Guoli Party must defend the mainland; The best way for the Kuomintang to hold the mainland was to compromise with Stalin. If the Republic of China had promised to use the Great Wall as its northern border, Stalin would have done what he had done to the Greek Communist Party in the East, and the outcome of the civil war would certainly have been Chang Kaishen's victory
-- North China is too barren, with an army of only one million and no industrial base, and no self-sufficiency in weapons and ammunition. Only the northeast has developed agriculture and can raise another million soldiers. At the same time, the physique and quality of the soldiers in the northeast were much higher than those in the Guannai, and with the industrial base, Soviet aid, and the hundreds of thousands of people left behind by the Kwantung Army, it was finally the first time that the country was defeated. The army formed an overwhelming superiority. If all the outside of the border were given to the Soviet Union, even if Stalin did not play the plane crash set, the million people inside the border would be exhausted little by little.
As for the Yunnan-Burma highway to remain open, after receiving US aid. The army launched a major counteroffensive. The idea is beautiful, but will Japan sit idly by? Not to mention that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Japan began to support the Chinese Kuomintang and the Republic of China to check and balance the warlords of various factions, as far as Japan's so-called 'one strike theory' is concerned, its purpose is to militarily crush the Kuomintang and make it impossible to unify China. They did this kind of thing once in 1917 with Yuan Shikai, who was the emperor, and it was just another time in 1937.
In 1944, with defeat on the horizon, Japan was determined to make one last effort, even at the cost of hundreds of thousands of people. This is the real reason for launching Operation No. 1 (Battle of Hunan, Guizhou, and Henan), not what is to open up the mainland communication line. During the period when the Sino-US joint air force had absolute air supremacy, the mainland line of communication would not be able to pass no matter how it was attacked. Only by vigorously pinching the Kuomintang and the party army before death, and at the same time taking out North China and conniving at the Communist Party to become bigger, will a two-China situation be formed after the war.
The same thing happened in India, where the Japanese Army was completely annihilated, and it was going to invade India with the Indian National Army. Operation Imphal (Battle of Imphal) was carried out with this purpose in mind. The Japanese army was indeed defeated in this battle, but what was the result? After the war, the Anglo-Indian authorities liquidated the Indian National Army and led to the Bombay Sailor Uprising, which in turn led to a naval uprising, and the result of the naval uprising was India's independence. In the year after independence, the Indian government commended Japanese Army personnel and granted them life pensions.
Japan does not have strategists? It's good to think like you're lewd. No matter how the situation of the domestic war changes, even if the country. An army can defeat a C division of the Japanese army, and the strategy of pulling and fighting on the Chinese battlefield will not change until the end of the war, because this is one of the purposes of sending troops to China - to prevent the Kuomintang from unifying China. From this point of view, it is meaningless whether the Yunnan-Burma Highway can be preserved, because the 1 million Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield will desperately turn all variables around and put history back on track before the defeat of the 1 million Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield.
The real way to change history was to compromise with the Soviet Union and abandon the places beyond the Great Wall. But is it good for Chang Kaishen to be in power? What is the difference between the KMT and the Communist Party? As Hu Shi said, 'In Mr. Chang's case, it's a matter of more and less; In Mr. Mao's place, there is a question of yes and no'?
Du Yuesheng contributed a lot to the Anti-Japanese War, and he fainted on the spot when he encountered a Japanese plane, and he had to explain the things assigned by Chang Kaishen before getting off the plane in Hong Kong and entering the hospital, and then took a plane to Chongqing a few days later. His protΓ©gΓ©s first formed a special squad, and then joined the Loyal Salvation Army. The sacrifice of the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army is unbearable, these Green Gang brothers do not understand military affairs at all, and some are just righteous spirits. But such a person, when all resources are used, is discarded like a used night pot......
"Sir, Sir......" Li Kongrong, who had seen Du Yuesheng, was still thinking about his thoughts, Dreich was a little anxious, he was worried that Li Kongrong would be resentful because of the incident in Shanghai, after all, the German army's offensive plan would still fall on him.
"Oh." Li Kongrong finally came back to his senses, he looked at the anxious Dreige and said, "Let's not mention Shanghai, it's sad to mention it." β
"Yes, I apologize deeply for that." Dredge breathed a sigh of relief, "Sir, Sir has seriously considered your suggestion last time, and he has a rough idea. Perhaps, some islands in the Caribbean can be open to your fleet. β
"Open?" Li Kongrong smiled, he didn't quite understand what openness meant.
"Allow your fleet to be stationed on these islands, and your soldiers can be stationed on the islands for training. But," Dredgey muttered, "it's the property of the government after all, and Sir wants you to give the Cabinet something, like your merchant fleet." β
"My merchant fleet?" Li Kongrong laughed even more. The 10,000-ton ships built by the Xinzhong Shipyard are sold and retained, and now they also have a scale of hundreds of thousands of tons. Navy personnel who had gone abroad, as well as Chinese German sailors implicated in the theft of the U-38, were placed on it. The British now suffered heavy losses in merchant ships and began to attack the idea of merchant fleets. Li Kongrong shook his head, and he said: "First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Sir for his proposal, but I have changed my mind now and I don't need a Caribbean base. β
"Don't need it? Okay, I'll tell you. "Drech doesn't really know what the deal means, he's just a passer.
"I just want you to open the Burma passage." Li Kongrong talked about the Burma affair, and the impatient Huang Baitao was about to leave the United States with the first batch of soldiers, and he would soon be in Yangon, and the passage of the Marine Corps soldiers through Burma must be kept secret.
"This was arranged very early." "They will enter Yunnan by water. No one will find out about them. β
"What about the weapons?" Li Kongrong asked about weapons again, among which helicopters were the most conspicuous.
"It will be properly arranged." "They will be interpreted as equipment for the British army." β
"That's good." Li Kongrong had no other worries, he said: "The Germans are already drawing up an offensive plan, and there will be some news in March, but do not forget that Hitler was a madman, and all plans of the General Staff will be nullified as long as he wants." β
"Of course." Drech accompanied the smiling face, and he hurried to see Li Kongrong for the German offensive plan. "Sir would like you to go to England again, he needs to talk to you about German intelligence and the Volunteer Navy in person."
"I'll go to London once in March or April." Li Kongrong thought about his schedule, leaving Hong Kong immediately, but not leaving Asia immediately. He had to wait until Huang Baitao settled in Yunnan, during which time he planned to go to Singapore and then stay there for about a month. The Volunteer Navy was first on duty in Singapore, then back to New York, and then moved to Mogadishu after the capture of Italian Somaliland in October. In short, his side is mobile, and Lin Guogeng's side is fixed.