The southwest mountainous area is steep and the scenery is beautiful.

However, in the midst of these mountains, it has now become a large construction site, and the construction of the southwest transportation system has broken the tranquility of this mountainous area. With the sweaty efforts of millions of migrant workers for two or three years, using machinery, hoes, and shovels, they have carved out spacious communication lines and opened tunnels one by one.

Dozens of cars were speeding down the road under the escort of soldiers, half of the road was still smashed, while the other half was asphalted. Then after crossing the Wuliang Mountain, only the dirt road remained, and the car slowed down and staggered forward.

It took several hours before entering Jinghong and driving into a military base.

There were people waiting, and the people waiting were several generals, including two lieutenant generals, one major general and one colonel.

Deng Xihou jumped out of the car, ordered the car to stop, and soon saw these big people, and was shocked in his heart. Isn't that the commander of the Ninth Army, Li Dashan, the chief of staff, Gu Pinzhen, and the commander of the 091st Division, Li Dangdang, and his chief of staff, Li Zongren, a small captain and battalion commander, actually work such a big man, etc.? At that moment, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Report commander, Deng Xihou, the commander of the first battalion of the second regiment of the 212th division, was ordered to escort the supplies to report for duty. ”

Li Dashan waited for a military salute, and then Li Dashan said: "Is everything here?" ”

Deng Xihou said: "Yes! The equipment of our 112th Division is all here. 11,325 rifles, 36 heavy machine guns, 125 light machine guns, 60 mortars, 36 mortars, and some ammunition. Here's the list. As he spoke, he pulled out an enveloped list from his military jacket pocket. In fact, he couldn't understand it in his heart, because in the past, the equipment under the equipment changed by the troops was transported south by water, and it was said that it was sold to the North Koreans, but now it is actually transported to the border of Yunnan, what is the use? In the past, all the three group armies stationed in Yunnan had already been redressed with standard equipment, and now the remaining three armies have long been fully equipped, so their 21st Army has been late in changing its equipment.

Li Dashan and Gu Pinzhen looked at the list, handed it to Li Kangdang, and nodded: "Very good." I didn't expect that your 21st Army was also equipped with a new 60 mortar. ”

Deng Xihou smiled: "Yes." The original mortar weighed 17 kilograms, but now the gun weighs only 13 kilograms. Much lighter. The range is also longer. There were also two new 82-mm mortars, the original ones were more than 50 kilograms, and now they are less than 40 kilograms. ”

Gu Pinzhen smiled: "It's hard work, take a day off." You can go back to your life. As he spoke, he beckoned a staff officer to take Deng Xihou to rest.

Li Dashan, Gu Pinzhen, Li Dangdang and Li Zongren all know. The reason for the continuous improvement of mortars. To make it lighter, it is likely to be in preparation for fighting in the south. The southwest and Indochina peninsulas are either mountainous or tropical rainforests, with the exception of several important transportation arteries currently under development. Elsewhere, at best, portable artillery - mortars - can be used.

Li Zongren said with a smile: "If Ho Chi Minh and Aung San get this batch of arms, I am afraid that the entire Indochina Peninsula will not be at peace. ”

Li Dashan said lightly: "The first batch of arms is considered to be our assistance to their anti-colonial movement, telling them that if they want more, they can only buy them with money." ”

Gu Pinzhen and Li Zongren both laughed dryly.

Soon, Li Kangdang and Li Zongren, accompanied by soldiers, drove with the convoy to a village more than 20 kilometers from Jinghong, which was actually a training base, but the training personnel seemed to be dark-skinned.

Li Dangdang and Li Zongren quickly entered a house, and soon a voice came from inside.

"What? Just this batch of munitions? How can we overthrow the rule of Britain and France with this little weapon? ”

"Our country has also been plundered for so many years, and now many people in the country can't eat enough, so why are so many things given away for nothing? No money? If you don't have money, you won't rob foreign devils. You have guns in your hands, not burning sticks."

Nanjing flickered in the hazy spring rain.

Li Bufan looked out the window in a daze, his brows were deeply locked, in fact, the drizzle brought fog, and the visibility was very low, he was actually in a daze.

Wu Di looked at the telegram in his hand and said half-loudly: "Boss, have you really decided?" ”

"Yes!" Li Bufan's voice was low, but very resolute.

Wu Di laughed and said, "You are not a qualified politician. ”

Li Bufan said lightly: "Then you tell me, what should a qualified politician look like?" ”

Wu Di Zhengse said: "A qualified politician will not refuse that plan and achieve the greatest benefit at the lowest cost. Conscience, conscience? For politicians, that thing would have been thrown away for the dogs a long time ago. Even if there is a little bit, it is for the country. ”

Li Bufan turned his head and stared at Wu Di with burning eyes: "I'm not a politician, I'm a soldier." ”

Wu Di laughed and said: "Boss, at your point, you are no longer a pure soldier. I understand what you mean, you are supporting the anti-colonial revolutionary forces of Ho Chi Minh and Aung San to bring French Annam and Burma into chaos in order to contain Britain and France, right? ”

Li Bufan said: "Yes." Of course, not only in Annam and Burma, but also in India, Afghanistan and other places, I can send some Tiger Ben soldiers to be their instructors and assist them. ”

Wu Di shook his head and said, "Their power is so little, how much movement can they make?" Boss, you don't know that the French recruited no less than 300,000 people in Annam, and the British trained the A-3 troops in India are said to have reached a million in size. The mere turmoil was not enough to shake their foundations, but on the contrary, the troops they trained could be tempered in actual combat. If we don't mess with them, they will have the ability to interfere in Tibet's affairs, and the difficulty of recovering Tibet will be greatly increased. ”

Li Bufan said: "I've thought about it, I'll send a tiger camp into Tibet to play as a striker." With the combat effectiveness of the tiger ben, it is completely possible to defeat the rebels in a devastating manner. ”

"But"

Li Bufan said categorically: "It's nothing. ”

Wu Di was stunned for a while, and said with a smile: "I am a military advisor, and the responsibility of a military advisor is to carry the black cauldron." I know that the implementation of that plan history is not a crime against humanity, and you do not do it. I'll do it. As the saying goes, killing one is a crime, and slaughtering ten thousand is a hero. Slaughter 9 million, that is, the male of the male. ”

Li Bufan shook his head and said, "You didn't understand what I meant. I want to use my iron cavalry of Great China to defeat the coalition forces of the great powers in a dignified manner, to tell the world with our dignified and upright achievements that we are stronger than them, to build an indestructible national self-confidence and pride, and to revive the pride and ambition of 'offending our China, even if it is far away, it will be punished'. Let our future generations know that China was the world's first in the past and will be the world's first. ”

Wu Di looked at Li Bufan in a daze. Mixed feelings inside. Some words came to his lips, but he didn't know where to start, and he swallowed them into his stomach. As far as the traverser is concerned, although he seems to be unlearned in later life. But they are still relatively highly educated. As an angry youth. He wanted to create a large territory belonging to China. But he has a moral subconscious in his bones, hoping that he will die less, no matter how many enemies die. It's best to die, you can win by means, why do you have to fight with others?

However, Wu Di remembered the later generations, especially for a long time in the 21st century, many brainless Chinese people admired foreign countries, and many domestic goods sold well in Europe and the United States, but they just didn't need to buy European and American goods, and it seemed that they couldn't show his grade without foreign brands? Obviously, I can't understand many English songs at all, so I have to listen to them in vain? Many bars only sell foreign wine in order to show their grade, but in fact, many of them are fake wine, or are there so many brains to be slaughtered? It's the hairstyle, how good is the pure natural color of black hair, you have to dye it in various colors, is it protesting against your wrong birth? But why is this happening?

Wu Di thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out, at that time, China's national strength was not strong enough? It's good that ten years after the 21st century, it will be second in the world, and it will become stronger and stronger, but why is it still like this? . But now he kind of understands that it is a lack of self-confidence and pride, and he has not achieved strong results in the world-level war, and he lacks confidence. Although the outstanding achievements of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were indeed shocking to the world, in the eyes of the world, it was only a local war, which could only make people fearful, but not enough to make people afraid and fearful.

And Li Bufan and the Southeast Asian war he planned, it can almost be said that they planned to use China's own strength to confront the entire Western world, which can be called the Second World War, not to mention winning, as long as it remains undefeated, if China is called second, who dares to call it first? The fierce record will make the self-confidence and pride of the Chinese people engraved in the bones, and from now on, where will there be any admiration for foreign flattery, you are not our opponent at all.

Wu Di suddenly felt that Li Bufan was right, even if China would pay a greater price and suffer more casualties, but the historical significance and far-reaching impact of this battle were immeasurable. If you think that the Western world has been developing for 300 years before it has come to dominate the world, but China has only been developing for three years and then beating them, what could be more ironic than this?

Thinking of this, Wu Di laughed, as if the whole person was relaxed. Although Li Bufan denied his views in the opinion of the strategic level, he felt very happy. Changed the topic: "I have asked experts in detail, if the brain drain, the level of manufacturing is inevitable, aircraft, warships, tanks and other performance will decline, but the use is not a problem, our design is much more advanced, the quality will not be worse than foreign devils." Of course, slowly the level will rise. ”

Li Bufan nodded and said, "That's good." ”

Wu Di hesitated and said: "However, if this situation is really encountered, I am afraid that in the next few years, because our talents are in the reserve training stage, the technical equipment will not be able to continue to upgrade, and the industrial scale will also grow slowly because of the bottleneck of the equipment manufacturing industry." But I don't think it has much to do with it, I don't expect that China's consumption capacity will grow very quickly in the next few years, after all, the people are used to being poor, and there will be a psychology of saving money, and it will take a long time to change consumption habits. ”

Li Bufan nodded and did not speak.

Wu Di Zhengse said: "What I want to know is, how are you going to fight this battle?" ”

Li Bufan said lightly: "Attack first, and then attack instead of defending it." ”

Wu Di was at a loss, as if he understood, but he didn't seem to understand, "What do you mean?" (To be continued......)

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