A few days ago in prison, and in the blink of an eye, Chandra was a little confused by the rapid transformation. So every morning he would stand in front of the window and wonder how it all happened.

Although he was not allowed to leave the room, and was monitored by guards 24 hours a day, he could still tell that he should be in a military base in the southwest of China. The base is huge, and thousands of soldiers can be seen training every day. To the west, a radio tower sits atop a dormitory building, and near the rainforest to the east, there is an airfield where you can faintly see more than a dozen biplanes taking off and landing every day for patrol and training.

After a few knocks on the door, two soldiers with gendarmerie armbands walked in with breakfast. As before, they put breakfast on the table Chapter 660 and stabbed three times (four) in a row, without a single superfluous word. Chandra looked at them and opened her mouth to ask how long she was going to lock herself up, but she couldn't bear it when she thought of the other party's silent look for a few days.

But just as he turned his head to continue to look out the window, a voice sounded behind him. The gendarme's English was very jerky, and he stammered: "Mr. Chandra, please prepare, the deputy chief of the general staff will come to visit you later." ”

Deputy Chief of the General Staff?! Chandra finally figured out the word, and her eyebrows jumped twice. The Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces came to see him? The news surprised him, and he was so excited and so nervous that he forgot to eat breakfast.

As a member of the Congress party, Chandra was not as ignorant as the average Indian, and he had spent a lot of time studying Yang Qiu's rise. The more he studied, the more he could feel Yang Qiu's persistent belief in the country, and what a real national leader was. In less than 20 years, the transformation of a feudal dynasty into a regional power, and even the fact that it went to Europe to fight wars and defeat the invincible German army, is enough to be proud of the others.

There has long been discussion within the Congress Party that we should learn from China and cooperate with China to use force to overthrow British colonial rule in Chapter 660 (4), but Gandhi and Nehru vetoed this proposal. After Gandhi's death, Nehru preferred to join hands with the Soviet Union, because there has always been a desire within the Congress Party to include Sikkim and Bhutan in the territory of Greater India, but because these places border China, everyone is afraid that once Britain withdraws the request of the Chinese Congress, they do not want to get too close to China.

In addition, Yang Qiu is not lukewarm to the Congress Party, but is very close to the Muslim League, so the two sides have never had the opportunity to contact head-on, originally thought that there was no hope of borrowing the power of neighbors to realize the dream of independence, but did not expect that he was hijacked here by a group of mysterious soldiers, and will meet the deputy chief of staff of the strongest army in Asia in a few hours.

Chandra, standing at the window, lost track of time until a large biplane that had never been seen before appeared in the sky.

People are coming!

In sight, the Y5 transport plane of the Air Force printed with the silver wing logo slowly landed at Nankan Airport.

Y5 is the Air Force internal number, taken from the first letter of the transport aircraft. In fact, the Y5 is the Tianshu 2 general aircraft that was introduced to Europe by the Northern Raytheon Company last year and became a blockbuster. Coincidentally, the name of this aircraft in later generations was also called Yun-5. Although it is not as fashionable as the single-wing all-metal KC-1 and not as large as the Albatross 1927, the Y5 has excellent low speed and safety, and can land safely even if the engine is damaged, plus a large range of 1,000 kilometers, so the military is very optimistic, so it purchased 360 aircraft in one go to equip two airborne brigades, and also purchased 120 transport and commuter types, which are specially used for liaison and personnel exchanges.

As soon as Shi Xiaolou and Xiao Jinyun got out of the plane, two officers in different military uniforms stood in front of them.

"Report, Fei Qiang, the commander of the 24th Regiment (hunter Luo Wenhu), has met the chief of staff."

Shi Xiaolou knew the two. The former also served as a soldier under him, participated in the Qingdao Campaign and the European War, and went to the Baoding Army Academy for further study because of his outstanding performance. After graduation, he was sent to the Hamburg Military Academy in Germany for two years of further study, and was briefly stationed in the 17th Infantry Division of North Korea as a battalion commander, and later in the process of military reform and abolition of the infantry brigade establishment because of the retirement of a large number of old officers in the Xinhai period, as a young Zhuang faction, he served as the commander of the 24th Regiment of the 23rd Division, and the 24th Regiment was transferred to Nankan last year to guard the southwestern frontier of the motherland.

And Luo Wenhu doesn't know much, mainly because the hunter unit is too mysterious, if it weren't for his promotion to deputy chief of staff, it is estimated that he doesn't know how many people there are in this unit and how big it is. This young man, who escaped from Yakutsk and joined the boy, is now the captain of the hunter.

"I've been squatting on the frontier for a year, and I've made a lot of sturdiness." Seeing his soldiers, Shi Xiaolou was very happy, patted his shoulder and smiled: "How does Nankan taste?" You kid didn't give me the whole Burmese daughter-in-law, did you? ”

"Hehe, how can it." Seeing his old boss, Fei Qiang hurriedly waved his hand.

"Tell me, how is this place?" It's been five or six years since the last time he came to Nankan, so Shi Xiaolou was a little unfamiliar with this place, and asked about the local situation as he walked.

Nankan and Jiangxinpo are two place names that many people in China are not familiar with. After the Xinhai ** incident, Britain once coveted this three-regardless area, and also took advantage of Yang Qiu's march to the southwest to send troops to occupy it, but when attracting the "Chinese" country to participate in the war, because Yang Qiu clearly asked Britain to recognize the two places as "China's" territory and withdraw its troops, he reluctantly agreed to withdraw, until the Shanghai Communiqué before the Wehrmacht slammed the northwest expansion to Tajikistan, which made Britain worry that the "China" Congress would attack India from Burma and Tajikistan, so that the two countries were recognized in the communiqué as belonging to the territory of the "China" country, in exchange for the "China" country did not continue to expand westward.

Five years ago, in order to better manage this land deep into northern Myanmar, the central government and the Yunnan provincial government joined hands to learn from the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to build a narrow-gauge railway from Dali to the Banlao silver mining area in Jiangxinpo through Nankan. Since the establishment of this railway, the small border towns have gradually become lively, and the high-quality jade, silver, copper and teak resources have attracted many merchants to pan for gold, and villages and towns have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Many people who have lived here all their lives have finally had the opportunity to get out of the mountains, especially those young people who have traveled to the big cities in search of their dreams.

After the opening of the railway, the country's various policies to benefit the people were finally popularized here, not only compulsory education began to be implemented, but also cement factories, timber mills and other factories appeared, and roads and automobiles gradually increased.

Ban Lao silver mine is one of the top ten silver mines in the country, coupled with the discovery of gold and copper near the Savage Mountain in recent years, in order to protect the increasingly important southwest gate, the Ministry of National Defense has deployed an infantry regiment and an armored company in Nankan since 1925. Since last year, with the commissioning of this comprehensive base, the Air Force has also stationed a squadron of Sparrow reconnaissance planes to coordinate with the army patrolling the border line.

Even so, the conditions here are more difficult than those in the mainland, after all, the narrow-gauge railway transportation volume is limited, and many things even have to be transported from Kunming by the air force.

The conditions are almost bearable, after all, the rotation of troops only needs to be stationed for two years, but border bandits are the most troublesome thing. British Burma was now in turmoil, with a complex mix of forces in China, Britain and France, bandits, armed men crossing the border from time to time, and guns and opium were rampant. Over the past year, eight battalions of the 24 th Regiment have been stationed in cooperation with the guard units on more than 100 sorties, sacrificing more than 20 people, killing and wounding thousands of bandits of all kinds, seizing more than 10,000 guns of various types, and even more countless opium.

Fei Qiang's introduction made Xiao Jinyun next to him frown secretly, and interjected: "It seems that Myanmar will not become independent for a day, and I am afraid that the southwest side will not be stable for a day." ”

"yes." Shi Xiaolou sighed. In the final analysis, the chaos in the southwest is caused by poverty and foreign forces, Jiangxinpo and Nankan are already remote, and it is not easy to build a railway to slowly distance themselves from the outside, but the difference between the rich and the poor has also led to the influx of many foreign refugees, and the bandits and heroes have used this place as a den for selling stolen goods, which will evolve into what it is today.

If Myanmar could have a strong central government, it might be better, but now that Britain and France are interfering with each other, China has also supported many local forces out of its own interests, which will make it even more chaotic. But these things couldn't be solved in a short period of time, so Shi Xiaolou put aside his thoughts for a while and asked, "Is that Chandra okay?" ”

Luo Wenhu, who had not spoken, said: "It's okay to cooperate if it's not noisy or noisy, but it's not much to talk about." ”

"I'll meet him first, and we'll see what you've brought your soldiers into later." Shi Xiaolou snorted and quickened his pace towards the officer's dormitory.

Chandra became nervous when she saw the plane landing, and when there was a knock on the door, she subconsciously tidied up her clothes. But before he could speak when he opened the door, Shi Xiaolou had already stretched out his hand and said in English, "Shi Xiaolou, it's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Chandra." ”

The people around Yang Qiu are no longer a secret, although Shi Xiaolou is not as famous as Cai Yi Yue Peng and others, but he is also the commander of the five main divisions of the year, and he can be seen in military operations such as the Sino-Japanese War, the European War, the march into the northwest, and North Korea. So when Chandra heard that it was him, she immediately tightened her cheeks: "Mr. Chief of Staff, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"This is my secretary." Shi Xiaolou pointed at Xiao Jinyun. The latter's identity is mysterious and cannot be exposed, so he disguises himself as a secretary to meet him. Chandra didn't pay much attention to it when she heard that it was the secretary, and politely invited the two into the house.

After the guards brought refreshments, Xiao Jinyun took the initiative to close the door, and Shi Xiaolou also took this opportunity to secretly look at the No. 2 person in the National Congress Party. Looks like he is in his thirties, handsome, with a high nose bridge, and looks like Sven Wen with glasses, and he should look good if he wears a military uniform. It's a pity that the bookish anger is too strong, but this is the tradition of the ideal politician in India.

"I took the liberty of inviting you in this way, and the soldier didn't embarrass you, did he?"

Please? Chandra smiled bitterly in her heart, it should be a kidnapping! Living under the eaves of other people's houses, I can only hold the gas in my stomach: "Thank you for rescuing me from the colonists, I like it very much." ”

From a petty officer who stubbornly defended at Wusheng Pass to the current deputy chief of general staff of the National Defense Forces, although he has gone through a road that is not much noticed, how can he not hear his dissatisfaction. However, Shi Xiaolou didn't care about this dissatisfaction, and smiled slightly: "The main reason for inviting you here is to understand the current situation in India. As neighbours, we are very concerned about the situation in your country, where more and more refugees are pouring into Tajikistan and Tibet, and if this situation is not curbed as soon as possible, we will have to think about solving these problems. ”

Chandra was shocked that after Gandhi's death, the domestic situation in India was indeed very complicated and chaotic, with constant conflicts of all sizes, and hundreds of guerrillas of all kinds, which indeed caused a large number of Indians to seek refuge in Bhutan and Burma. But as far as he knows, the number of people is actually not large, and it will not have much impact on these areas. So does this sentence indicate that China will use this as an excuse to enter India?

As far as he knows, Sino-British relations have been stumbling, and for the "China" countries that want to dominate Asia, the "Japan" has been forced back to the island, and the Soviet Union has not recovered, so the biggest opponent is Britain, which occupies the East Indies, the South Asian subcontinent, and the Persian Gulf, so the possibility of attacking India and attacking Britain cannot be ruled out.

This made Chandra a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Chief of Staff, our Congress Party is trying to restore peace in the country, and the Indian people have the ability to solve their own problems. ”

Shi Xiaolou was not surprised by this answer, the whole party of the National Congress is like this, and he wants to be the * son and want to set up a memorial arch. If he really has the ability to solve it himself, why did Gandhi not dare to do it after he died for so long? Otherwise, it would have taken so much effort to invite this guy to come. He said slowly, "Mr. Chandra, it's not that I look down on you. What did Britain say when it invited you to send troops during the European War? Did they give you independence after the war? History has clearly given you a good opportunity to build an independent country, but you have just lifted a stone to shoot yourself in the foot and engaged in some kind of non-violent movement. ”

After pouring the tea, Shi Xiaolou handed the cup to Chandra, who frowned, and continued slowly: "Asia is our Asia, and the era of colonizers is over!" Facts have proved that the cause of national liberation cannot count on the benevolence of the colonizers, but can only rely on the guns in the hands of the soldiers and the efforts of the progressive people! Resisting colonial rule by force and awakening the sleeping people is the only option, but you. ”

The last sigh made Chandra twitch the corners of his mouth, he knew that Shi Xiaolou was right, India was infinitely close to independence before and after the European War, but in the end, because of Gandhi's nonviolent movements and some betrayers, he finally watched the opportunity slip away. It's a pity that there is no real soldier like Shi Xiaolou in China, let alone a staunch nationalist like Yang Qiu, who is still arguing over whether he should take armed independence or peaceful independence.

Thinking of this, he was also very frustrated, but for the sake of face, he still defended himself: "What you said is very right, but the situation in my country is different from your country. Your country has never been truly enslaved by the colonizers, and even the Qing Dynasty has maintained its independence. And we lack weapons and soldiers to allow the people to take spears and sticks against the enemy with aircraft artillery, which will cause serious casualties, and. ”

"What can a nation hope for without even the courage to shed blood and sacrifice?" Shi Xiaolou interrupted his speech unceremoniously, looked at Chandra with his eyes like a falcon, and suddenly stood up: "Mr. Chandra, if you have such a mentality, our conversation can be over." Someone, send Mr. back to India. ”

Chandra didn't expect Shi Xiaolou to be so straightforward, and he was ready to leave without agreeing with each other.

"General!" Chandra hurriedly called Shi Xiaolou, this was the first time he had used the title of general, but he didn't know what to say after calling out. Do you want to ask the Chinese people for help? What if China has ambitions for Indian land? But if you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to climb the line of China in the future! For a while, I was so worried that I didn't know how to continue.

Xiao Jinyun had been secretly paying attention, and after seeing him get up and stop, he realized that this guy had taken the bait, and immediately looked at Shi Xiaolou, and took out an English newspaper and handed it to him in the latter's nod: "Sir, this is a British newspaper published in Singapore." ”

Chandra wondered, what are you doing with your own newspaper? But when he saw it clearly, his eyes straightened! Because the front page of the newspaper was impressively printed with a line of shocking black letters.

"London stock market crash, 5 billion pounds evaporated in three days! 》。

5 billion pounds! Nearly 25 billion US dollars, 50 billion people! It was evaporated in three days because of the stock market crash! What is this concept? You know, the total equipment of the British Imperial Navy is less than 5 billion pounds!

One can imagine what the current chaos has become in London.

Before he could come back to his senses, Shi Xiaolou's voice had already sounded: "Mr. Chandra, the opportunity has appeared!" The economic crisis has already reached the UK, and the pound has lost more than 10% of its value in a week. From the experience of the United States, it should be clear what it means that they will not be able to recover from the crisis for at least two years.

In addition, we have received intelligence that Mr. Nehru is already seeking help from Soviet troops in Afghanistan, but I would like to warn you Congress here. Since tsarist times, the Slavs have been looking for an outlet to the sea in the East, so Mr. Nehru's actions are digging his own grave! Because it will rekindle their greed! We have promised the world that we do not need colonies, we do not want to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, and we have no interest in your land, but if the Soviet army enters your country, or leases your country's access to the sea, then we will have to intervene! ”

Chandra's head was sweating, and these words were already naked warnings.

Xiao Jinyun saw that the opportunity was ripe and said: "Sir, our general has written to the Ministry of National Defense to prepare to establish an Asian liberator training camp in northern Myanmar, and will provide weapons and equipment for the soldiers participating in the training camp free of charge, if you are interested." He took out a piece of paper and put it on the table: "Let the soldiers come to us with this." ”

After speaking, he walked out of the room with Shi Xiaolou without waiting for an answer.

Looking at the backs of the two leaving, Chandra realized that in just a few minutes, his back was covered with hot sweat. Looking at the note on the table, his hand was stretched out and slowly retracted, as if it was not a note on the table but a deadly poison. Stretch out, retract and stretch out again, and after repeating it a few times, it seems to have made up my mind, pick up the note, and clench it tightly.

Outside the room, Shi Xiaolou asked as he walked, "Jin Yun, do you think he will be able to?" ”

When it comes to fighting, Shi Xiaolou can throw off Xiao Jin Yun a few streets, but when it comes to engaging in intelligence and doing underground work, he is far inferior to this new director who has been training in East India and other places for several years. The latter was very confident in himself and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Chief of Staff, Chandra is a smart man." If he misses this opportunity, let alone become independent, I am afraid that he will not even want to sit firmly in the position of the Congress.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Shi Xiaolou also understood that after Gandhi's death, Nehru had long wanted to unify the Congress Party, so how could he leave Chandra, a competitor, to compete for power with him? So he looked at Xiao Jinyun and said with a smile: "You kid, why don't you look like your uncle?" I have figured out all this bit of people's hearts. ”

Xiao Jinyun scratched his head and laughed dryly, Shi Xiaolou and his uncle Xiao Anguo are both peers, so it is naturally difficult to argue. Just as he was about to speak, Fei Qiang ran over with a telegram in his hand. He was secretly surprised, what actually sent the telegram here? But before he could ask Fei Qiang what was going on, he saw Shi Xiaolou's face changing slightly when he was reading the telegram.

"Chief of Staff, what's the matter?" Seeing this, Xiao Jinyun hurriedly asked.

"I'm going back to Beijing for a meeting right away, and I'll leave it to you here." Shi Xiaolou folded the telegram and put it in his pocket, raised his head and flattened his mouth: "I received information in the morning, and I have already withdrawn from the naval treaty!" ”！！！