Chapter 5: Fireworks

In late December, China and Britain signed the "Sino-British Agreement on the Joint Defense of the Yunnan-Burma Highway" in response to the issue of the defense of Burma, and established a Sino-British military alliance. The Kuomintang Political Axe Military Committee decided to form an expeditionary force with Du Yuming's Fifth Army, Gan Lichu's Sixth Army, and Zhang Zhen's 66th Army, and set up the Commander's Headquarters of the First Route Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

After receiving this news, the officers and men of the 200th Division, who had been "resting" for more than a week, were jubilant, because everyone knew that they were about to set off again.

As a result, as soon as they waited, they waited until New Year's Day.

On New Year's Day 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a declaration to form the United Nations with the United States, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union as leaders. Then, according to Roosevelt's suggestion, Chiang Kai-shek was the commander in chief to form a Chinese theater to deal with the war aggression of fascists against China, India, Burma, Thailand and other countries. At Chiang Kai-shek's request, Lieutenant General Stilwell was appointed commander of the U.S. Army in the China-Burma-India Theater and chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme commander of the Chinese theater. In March, after Stilwell came to Yucheng to take up his post, he went to Burma. Chiang Kai-shek ordered: All units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force should be under Stilwell's command.

Although the Chinese Expeditionary Force had to obey the command of an American, as long as it could enter Burma and take the initiative to attack Yukou, the officers and men of the 200th Division still chose to accept and tolerate it, and secretly speculated that even the command was handed over to the Yankees, and it seemed that they could really move now.

In the expectation of the officers and men of the whole division, their food is getting worse and worse, except for special troops like Lei Zhen and them, who have received extra care, there are no meat stars in the dishes eaten by other companies, and even military salaries are in arrears. In the face of the officers' questioning, the quartermaster of the logistics department was also helpless, according to the prior agreement, their batch of Chinese troops who entered Burma to assist the British army in the war, the logistics supply should be provided by the British side, the British [***] side made things difficult for them in every way, obviously they had sufficient strategic materials, but they did not give them to them, what can they do about the Chinese [***] team, which is unified under the management of the Americans, he is a small quartermaster, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice? !

"What kind of friendly army is this, please come over and help them fight, obviously they are already so anxious that they are burning their eyebrows, and they are still pretending to be there, they really want to set up a torii when they are fucking bitches. Phew! Holding the meat in the bowl and looking at the moldy rice that the other brothers were eating, I felt like I was a thief. ”

Friendly?!

Listening to the loud complaint of Li Min, the leader of the first class, Lei Zhen was silent for a long time before he said in a strange voice: "Friends should be equal!" ”

Chiang Kai-shek, in his capacity as commander of the Chinese Theater of Operations, personally flew back to Kunming from India to discuss with the chief of staff of the British Army in Burma various issues concerning the garrison area of the Chinese and British troops in Burma. ”

It had been three months since the Fifth Army set out from Kunming to Chiang Kai-shek's second battle order. In the past three months, the military has successfully established an alliance with Thailand and invaded Burma through the Thai-Burmese border east of Tawa and Mawlamyine.

In the face of the Japanese army, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, and even carried a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and heavy damage to the US fleet, and rushed into the Burmese colony, the British [***] team, which has always been known for not falling into the old empire, was really on the verge of collapse, and was used by the army to drive ducks all the way to Mawlamyine, the most important city in southeastern Burma, thus priing open the hardest barrier in the capital Yangon.

After obtaining such a strategic springboard that was only 170 kilometers away from Yangon, the air force of Yangon attacked the Mingaradong airfield on the north side of Yangon at night on the same day, and then bombed Yangon day and night.

For three months, the Fifth Army, which had assisted the British but had been rejected by the British for three months, had lost its most important opportunity on the battlefield.

By this time, anyone would know that when they entered Burma, they would face a war that would be even more severe and less optimistic than in China. When he said that he went west from Kunming, that kind of passion, that kind of blood boiling, and that kind of impassioned passion for sacrificing his life for the country and the people, at this time, had turned into a thick silence.

Under the leadership of the officers, the officers and men of the 200th Division, who had eaten moldy rice for more than a month and gnawed vegetables and radishes for nearly two months, silently climbed onto the trucks that had been quietly parked for three months. Just when the long line of trucks had not yet driven out of Banqiao, everyone suddenly heard a new order: "The situation has changed, temporarily stop entering Burma!" ”

The temporary suspension of entering Myanmar means that they do not need to enter Myanmar for the time being, or even again, and that they can all return to their places alive. It should be a happy event that there is no need to meet a strong enemy on the battlefield again, but no one has a smile on his face. In fact, the new order was clearly heard, and no one got out of the truck, whether it was an officer, a veteran of a hundred battles, or a recruit who had undergone rigorous training and was waiting to be trained in the war.

I don't know what happened to the other troops, but the 598th Regiment is like a powder keg that will cause a big explosion as long as there is a little spark, and in a death-like silence, it seems that even the air is filled with a depressing and dangerous smell of gunpowder.

The chief of staff of the 598th Regiment was really anxious, and as soon as the order was issued, the regiment commander Zheng Junjian and the deputy regiment commander Huang Jingsheng were called to a meeting by the division commander, and the chief of staff knew very well that he was more than powerful and lackluster, and he rarely shared weal and woe with the officers and soldiers on the battlefield and training ground in peacetime, and he simply did not have enough prestige to suppress these officers and soldiers who had been trapped for three months, eating moldy rice and green vegetables and radishes every day, and their emotions were on the verge of exploding.

Once the 598th Regiment is in chaos at this most sensitive time, it is likely to cause a mutiny that can no longer be suppressed!

At this critical moment, the chief of staff suddenly heard a metallic voice with an explosive surname, which exploded on a huge rock next to the convoy.

"Not convinced, isn't it, isn't it? Nonsense, people first used the method of raising pigs for a few months, and then they were played over and over again like monkeys, who is not fucking angry. I can tell each and every one of you out loud that if there was that bullshit British chief of staff standing in front of me right now, I would just pull out a gun and destroy him! ”

may have been with the help of loudspeakers and other amplification tools, and the chief of staff could clearly hear this voice from a distance of dozens of meters, and in his heart, he even let out a lament: "It's broken!" ”

As a chief of staff, what you need is to be able to judge the situation on the battlefield and put forward the most reasonable suggestions for the chief of operations, so the first lesson that the chief of staff should learn is to know people's surnames. You don't have to look at who is roaring, as long as you listen to this voice, the chief of staff knows that this is a resolute and resolute man, with a kind of ascending and shouting all over his body, and he will surely respond to the air like a cloud.

Now the 598th Division is already in turmoil, and everyone is angry, as long as this man gives a little guidance, a huge disturbance or even a mutiny will be inevitable.

The person who stood on a huge rock, held a horn made of iron sheet in his hand, and shouted wildly, was a thunderstorm!

Facing the officers and soldiers of the Fifth ** Regiment who were standing in the truck, but all their eyes were on him, Lei Zhen took a deep breath, used all his strength, and shouted loudly: "But I want to ask everyone to think about it, why are the British still pushing back our 'friendly army' when they have been beaten and fleeing, and they are obviously in need of help, but they still push back and forth against our 'friendly army', and even do not provide enough supplies, so that we eat pig-like food every day, and stand here in a daze every day and be stupid?" ”

"Because we're weak! In their eyes, we are an insignificant force, a force that will be scattered at the first time, and will not be important at all! Although the British were beaten and lost one city after another, in the eyes of this group of remnants of the defeated generals, we are still a subordinate army, which is not in the stream at all, and is not worthy of being compared with them! In their eyes, it is shameful and disgraceful to ask for help from such an indiscriminate army as ours, and it is not in keeping with the glory and gentlemanly demeanor of their British Empire! ”

Still no one spoke, and everyone really had nothing to say, because they all knew that what Lei Zhen said was true. Hearing such a harsh, yet true declaration, everyone silently clenched the gun in their hands.

A more somber and dangerous aura slowly flowed through everyone's body, and even beside the chief of staff, several combat staff officers who were still quite young and still retained the blood and passion unique to young people looked at each other and were silent.

"I know it's angry, everyone is a five-foot-tall man, who is so underestimated, who is fucking angry? But what's wrong with being angry? If you have gas, even if you use a wooden stick to pestle it hard, you have to hold it back for me! ”

Lei Zhen's words were really full of twists and turns, and the chief of staff's eyes lit up all of a sudden. And Lei Zhen's words, with a rolling roar like thunder, continued to blast into everyone's ears, "If you have gas, just keep the for me!" ”

"If we still go to Burma and become the 'friendly army' of the British, then I want you to use this anger to beat hard, so that those self-righteous friendly troops can open their eyes and see clearly, what is the real squadron, and why did we drag 80% of the army on our land, and they paid a heavy price! If we eventually withdraw from China......"

Speaking of this, Lei Zhen shouted: "What's the big deal, I didn't leave, and the war will continue, so let's go back together, and use the gun in our hands to fuck the thirty-sixth generation of the mother's ancestors!" ”

The ghost who was standing next to Lei Zhen also opened his throat and howled loudly: "Report to the platoon leader, I don't do the thirty-sixth generation ancestor of Xiao Yueben, I am not interested in those old zombies, I just want to fuck Xiao Yueben's girl with a thin waist and big breasts and a round butt!" ”

"You're fucking dreaming!" Lei Zhen glared at the ghost talent, and shouted loudly: "I see that you are too energetic to think about women, I will punish you to run around the barracks for thirty laps immediately, and you must repeat all the way 'I am not interested in those old zombies, I just want to fuck a girl with a thin waist, big breasts, a round ass'!" ”

The officers and soldiers of the whole regiment looked at the ghost talent dumbfounded, and actually saluted Lei Zhen, then put down the submachine gun on his body, and while running around their convoy, he tore away his loud voice, leaving a battle declaration all the way: "I'm not interested in those old zombies, I just want to do a little girl with a thin waist, big breasts, and a round buttocks".

"...... Uproar"

Suddenly, a cheerful laughter rose over the entire 598th Regiment's convoy, and in the midst of the laughter, Lei Zhen waved his hand fiercely and shouted: "Didn't you hear the order to temporarily stop advancing?" If you don't want to eat lunch in the car, just let me down, if you still feel energetic and have no place to sprinkle, just run with the ghost, and think about how to do Xiao Yu's sister! ”

The 200 divisions, which governed the army very strictly, and the 598th Regiment, which was even more strictly governed by the army, and the 598th Regiment, which was known as the "Iron Army", actually had most of the people following behind the ghosts, and more than 2,000 people lined up in a long line that could not see the head at a glance.

The chief of staff looked helplessly at everything in front of him, it was better to make a fool of himself like this than to mutiny, right? Listening to the erotic slogans that shook the wilderness, but after thinking about it, the chief of staff suddenly laughed. After so many twists and turns, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth ** Regiment were smothered with a fire in their hearts, and the platoon commander who didn't know his name was resolved with such a method that made people only feel incredible.

"No......" The chief of staff widened his eyes sharply, because he suddenly thought that the platoon commander did not dissolve everyone's anger and fire, but let everyone bury them deeper in their hearts. Once they arrive on the battlefield, these officers and soldiers no longer have any scruples, and when they can finally release this breath and this fire completely, they will surely become the most terrible torrent of iron and blood on the battlefield!

(To be continued)