Chapter 397: Combat Meeting
Yue Weihan's humiliation is finally over.
All the officers above the battalion commander level of the divisions of the expeditionary force also left in disgrace, just now, although Yue Weihan humiliated them fiercely, but also aroused their blood surnames, they all said that the clay people still have three local surnames, not to mention these iron-blooded veterans who crawled out of the pile of dead? Now, they are all holding back their energy to prove themselves again in Myitkyina.
Immediately, Yue Weihan summoned the senior generals of the expeditionary force to convene an emergency combat meeting.
In the temporary war room made of military tents, Yue Weihan turned around and asked Luo Zhuoying: "Deputy Commander-in-Chief Luo, could you please tell me how many combatants, non-combatants and wounded the expeditionary force are now?" The details of the division's firepower distribution, ammunition reserves, food reserves, and medicine reserves are now. ”
"Huh?" Luo Zhuoying was suddenly a little dumbfounded, "This ......"
Admiral Luo Zhuoying has always only liked to ponder people, and never pondered things, how can he be clear about these data?
Stilwell, who was still next to him, relieved Luo Zhuoying of the siege, and said in slightly stiff Chinese: "The expeditionary force has seven infantry divisions, one tank regiment, one artillery regiment, one engineer regiment, one automobile regiment and one baggage regiment, with a total of more than 60,000 combatants, more than 9,000 technical troops, more than 8,000 non-combatants, and more than 2,000 light and serious wounded. ”
Yue Weihan couldn't help but give Stilwell a thumbs up, the American ghost animal is serious.
Stilwell shook his head and said, "General Yue, frankly speaking, I admire your exciting speech just now, as well as your determination and courage to resist to the end, but the 56th Division of the Chinese Army has occupied Myitkyina for a week, and I don't think it's a good idea to raid Myitkyina, let alone that this battle plan can be successful." ”
The commander of the Sixth Army, Gan Lichu, is also an old qualified [***] senior general, and he has not had a seizure before, but this will finally let him seize the opportunity, and he said in an unquestionable tone at the moment: "Our Sixth officers and soldiers are not afraid of death, but they will never die in vain for the sake of some people's great achievements!" ”
"What a great achievement!?" Yue Weihan asked coldly, "So, what about Commander Yigan's high opinion?" ”
"The situation is very clear." Gan Lichu said without showing weakness, "The fighter plane fighting for Burma with the Yue army has been completely lost, and the result of the counteroffensive can only be the loss of the division, and I secretly think that the expeditionary force should withdraw the whole division to India, and after receiving all the American-style ordnance, then try to counterattack Burma!" ”
"What a counterattack on Burma!" Yue Weihan said, "It's easy to say! ”
"Do you know how long that takes? It will take another year to receive American-style ordnance and reorganize training, to say the least, and another two years to mobilize engineers and technicians to open up an improvised road from India to Burma! Commander Gan, how easy is it for you to withdraw to India with a move of your mouth? But without the lifeline of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, do you know how long China can hold out? ”
"Without the materials delivered by the Yunnan-Burma Highway, within half a month, the domestic medicine will be in an emergency, and thousands of wounded will lose their lives because of the lack of medicine, and in another half a month, all the ammunition reserves will be exhausted, and then the [***] soldiers can only fight with the little devil with bayonets!"
"If it's three or five months, you can still grit your teeth and persevere, for a year or two, what can you do to persist in the war of resistance?"
"A good one retreated to India, if you withdraw like this, the Sixth Army will be saved, but China will die!"
"Dare to ask Commander Gan, are you planning to take more than 20,000 officers and soldiers to the British as mercenaries? Or are you going to enclose a piece of land in some corner of Southeast Asia, open up a kingdom of reading power, and become the king yourself? ”
"You ......," Gan Lichu said angrily, "You are an insult to me!" ”
"An insult to you?" Yue Weihan said coldly, "You insulted me, and even more insulted every [***] person!" I'm ashamed to have such a compatriot and a robe as you! ”
After saying this, Yue Weihan said again: "As a soldier, shouldn't you desperately defend your motherland and your compatriots? That's right, this trip to Myitkyina is unpredictable, life and death are uncertain, but what I want to say is that as long as there is a glimmer of hope, I am willing to do my best, what does it matter if I die in battle and be a lonely ghost in a foreign land? ”
"Who wouldn't say pretty things?" Gan Lichu retorted and said hungrily, "Clever words!" ”
Yue Weihan ignored Gan Lichu again, turned his gaze to several division commanders, and asked: "I'll ask you one last time, it's still too late to change your mind, if you don't want to counterattack Myitkyina, although you will withdraw to India with your troops, I will never leave it difficult, but if you promise to do well now, but when the time comes, don't blame me Yue for being unkind!" ”
"Hmph, our Sixth Army will not be accompanied!" Gan Lichu said and turned around and left.
However, Peng Bisheng, commander of the 49th Division of the Sixth Army, and Lu Guoshui, commander of the 93rd Division, did not move at all, and Chen Mianyue, commander of the 55th Division, originally wanted to go with Gan Lichu, but when he saw that Peng and Lu did not move, he retracted his right foot halfway through, and Gan Lichu, who had already walked to the door of the tent, was suddenly extremely embarrassed.
"Commander Gan, you have been dismissed!" Yue Weihan said coldly, "You can go back to China!" ”
Seeing that the three division commanders under his command did not have the slightest intention of supporting him, Gan Lichu knew that the general trend had gone, so he turned around and walked away with a muffled snort, in fact, Gan Lichu really didn't want to stay here anymore, in his opinion, the expeditionary force turned around and went south to fight Myitkyina, which was simply to send him to death, and he didn't want to die in Burma as a lonely ghost.
Stilwell had a new understanding of Yue Weihan, and this young Chinese general was indeed different!
In Stilwell's view, Yue Weihan has a clear mind and a firm will, and once he makes up his mind, there is a momentum of not giving up until the goal is achieved, and Stilwell said to Yue Weihan: "General Yue, although I do not agree with your battle plan, I can responsibly tell you that the US military forces in India will fully cooperate with the combat operations of the expeditionary force!" ”
"General Stilwell, on behalf of the more than 70,000 officers and men of the expeditionary force and the 40,000 compatriots in China, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the American political axe and all the American people!" Yue Weihan said, and immediately saluted Stilwell's standard [***] military salute, and Yue Weihan did not doubt Stilwell's promise at all.
Yue Weihan does not believe in the friendship of Americans, he only believes in the realistic attitude of Americans!
At the present stage, the number one enemy of the United States is the Axis alliance composed of Germany, Italy, and Israel, and in order to defeat this enemy, the US political axe will make any effort at all costs.
Historically, the United States has provided arms and materials to its allies, and the huge numbers will definitely frighten people to death!
Historically, the Soviet Union alone received 15,000 aircraft, 7,000 tanks, 50,000 jeeps, 380,000 trucks, 8,000 artillery pieces, 130,000 machine guns, 340,000 tons of explosives, 26,700,000 tons of refined oil, $1 billion in various construction machinery and equipment, and a large number of other materials.
The Soviet Union was a [***] country, ideologically speaking, in diametrically opposed to the United States!
However, in order to win World War II and defeat Nazi Germany, the American political axe and people simply put aside their ideological concerns and provided astronomical amounts of arms and materials to the Soviet Union at any cost, which finally helped the Soviet Union withstand the frantic attack of the German army and laid a solid foundation for the final victory of the Allied forces.
Putting aside the grievances of later generations, at least the American political axe of this era is still trustworthy!
Immediately, Yue Weihan's thinking returned to the current battlefield in Burma, and continued: "According to intelligence, the 55th Division of the Chinese Army is currently resting near Mandalay, and a wing of the 33rd Division and the main force of the 18th Division are pursuing north along the railway line from Mandalay to Myitkyina, which is still about 200 miles away from Myitkyina. ”
"After the 56th Division of the Yue Army occupied Lashio, it immediately divided its troops into three routes, one of which was an infantry wing pursuing the retreating 66th Army at full speed along the Yunnan-Burma Highway, an infantry wing with the cooperation of the chariot wing had occupied Myitkyina, and the last infantry wing was stationed in Lashio, ready to meet the Yue Army on Myitkyina or the Yunnan-Burma Highway at any time."
The division commanders present immediately looked at each other, where did Yue Weihan get the military intelligence?
Stilwell also said suspiciously: "General Yue, is the information you said reliable?" ”
"Absolutely reliable!" Yue Weihan said without hesitation, "This is the intelligence that our intelligence agencies have spent a huge amount of money to obtain from within the army, and it is impossible to make mistakes." After saying this, Yue Weihan said, "If the army in Myitkyina hadn't been arrogant because of the lack of troops, how could they have watched us retreat into the Hukang River Valley?" ”
Of course, Yue Weihan's information is absolutely reliable, because Nanzao Yunzi is now the head of the general organ of the Southern Agency!
The so-called Southern Organ was originally only a special agency in charge of Burmese affairs, but now, it has become the highest secret agency of the entire Southern Army.
Yue Weihan said: "The Yue army stationed in Myitkyina has only one infantry wing plus a chariot wing, plus the Burmese Kachin army's army that cooperates with the Yue army's operation, the strength will not exceed 8,000 people at most, so it is not a problem to capture Myitkyina, the question is how to hold the position after capturing Myitkyina, waiting for the 39th Group Army to rush to Burma?" ”
"I'm afraid this won't be easy." Sun Liren frowned and said, "The 39th Group Army is still far away in Shanxi, and it will take three months to reach Burma at the earliest, while the ammunition, food and medicine of our expeditionary force are only enough to last for half a month. ”
Stilwell frowned, and said to Yue Weihan: "The allies can send transport planes to airdrop supplies, but the amount of airdropped supplies is extremely limited, and can only be used as an emergency measure, because only a small amount of ammunition and materials airdropped is far from enough to support the huge consumption of 80,000 officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force. ”
"Airdrop doesn't work, but what about airlift?" Yue Weihan said suddenly.
"By air?" "Of course, air freight is fine, but what about airports? ”
After saying this, Stilwell suddenly said, "God, you mean...... Myitkyina Airport? ”
"General Stilwell, you guessed it!" Yue Weihan smiled and said, "It's Myitkyina Airport!" ”
After saying that, Yue Weihan turned his head to Sun Lidao again: "Senior Commander Sun, don't you want to prove the strength of the Tax Police Corps?" Do you dare to take troops to rob Myitkyina airport? I must remind you that although there are not many Syrian troops in Myitkyina, you must take the Myitkyina airport intact, and you must not allow the Japanese army to destroy the airport facilities, especially not allow the Japanese army to blow up the runway! ”
"Why don't you dare?" Sun Liren said coldly, "Don't forget what you said, just wait to apologize!" ”
With that, Sun Liren picked up his military hat and buckled it heavily on his head, and then turned around and walked out of the temporary headquarters.
Seeing that Sun Liren's figure was about to go away, Yue Weihan suddenly reminded loudly: "Sun Liren, don't forget that our Chinese Expeditionary Force is now an ally of the British colonialists, and it is not popular in Burma. ”
Sun Liren's footsteps paused slightly, and he said fiercely: "I know what to do, I don't need you to teach me!" ”
Yue Weihan was dumbfounded when he heard this, but he forgot that this Sun Liren was originally a ruthless man, and in history, he had buried thousands of prisoners of war alive by the Yue army, in order to ensure that his whereabouts were not known by the Yue army, in order to ensure the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Burma highway, and in order to ensure that China's resistance could continue, what was it to kill a few Burmese natives?
"Now I command!" Yue Weihan Huoran turned around and said to the rest of the division commanders, "Peng Bisheng's 49th Division is responsible for the defense of the Hukang River Valley, Lu Guosheng's 93rd Division is responsible for the defense of the Menggong River Valley, Chen Mianyue's 55th Division is temporarily responsible for the defense of the Kuman Mountain, the Engineer Regiment directly under the Fifth Army immediately began to repair the road between the Hukang River Valley and the Menggong River Valley, and the 200th Division, the new 22nd Division, and the 96th Division are deployed along the Kuman Mountain to Myitkyina, blocking the main force of the Yue Army pursuing north along the railway line layer by layer. ”
After that, Yue Weihan turned back to Stilwell and said: "General Stilwell, please come forward to contact General Alexander in India, and ask him to urgently mobilize engineering troops, construction machinery and Indian laborers to repair the road from Tingjiang Airport to Myitkyina, the Yunnan-Burma highway has been cut off by the Chinese army, and we must rush to repair a Sino-Indian highway as soon as possible!" ”
“ok! ok! Stilwell nodded repeatedly, "There's no problem with this, absolutely no problem." ”
(To be continued)