206. Hesitation
Darwin Port is an excellent port in northern Australia, which became the submarine command of the U.S. military shortly after the outbreak of the war, and with the strategic retreat of the Chinese side, the coalition forces "recovered" a series of areas such as New Guinea, Java Island, and Sulawesi, and the headquarters of the Allied Southeast Asian Front was located here.
General Pershing was the commander of the Southeast Asian Front, and although he suffered a crushing defeat in the Philippines, the U.S. Army was at that level at this time, and there were really no famous generals who could do it. The most important thing is that of the more than one million troops of the Southeast Asian Front, 6.7 million are US troops, and the commanders are naturally US military personnel.
Soon after the coalition forces "regained" these lost territories, a famine broke out. The naΓ―ve Yankees at the beginning are also preparing for real disaster relief, so as to show their benevolent and magnificent image. But soon they collapsed, because they found that the victims were not thousands, tens of thousands, but tens of millions, and they controlled these places for less than half a month, and the disaster began to break out in full force, and it was out of control.
At first, the U.S. military thought it was heaven, and that all it needed was bread to play with women, and they could play whatever they wanted. However, as the famine spread, people became fearful under the extreme hunger, and some American soldiers who went out to hunt for beauty disappeared, which aroused vigilance, and even some material convoys were attacked and looted by armed forces, which raised a sense of crisis for the coalition forces.
Repression ensued.
In fact, hunger is the fuse that triggers the latent violence in people's hearts, and some natives have obtained a lot of old arms from "some" channels, and the armed robbery and confrontation are out of control.
For the lives of these natives, in the eyes of Westerners, they are simply like ants, of course, iron-blooded suppression. Especially the Dutch army, which was originally a colony of the Dutch, when the Chinese defense forces moved south, the Dutch army did not dare to resist and retreated south, and now in the face of the indigenous rebellion, it was a merciless massacre.
The powers only need to distinguish that there are no Chinese in it, and it doesn't matter how many other natives kill, who can seek revenge on them? In fact, the Chinese have been asked to evacuate as the Chinese defense forces shrink their defensive lines.
In this era, the Chinese no longer dare to provoke, because they have already learned from the past, and there is no need for them to test whether Li Bufan's blade can kill people, not to mention that there are at least hundreds of thousands of whites in the entire area controlled by the Chinese side in Southeast Asia. According to the Chinese, unless the Chinese in the Western world safely migrate to the South American empire or return to China, it is impossible for all these "hostages" to be released.
This statement of the Chinese side is already very revealing, you are the first year of junior high school, I am the fifteenth, you West dare to kill the Chinese, then I dare to slaughter the white people in my hands.
Pershing had always been overwhelmed by the indigenous turmoil, and now a telegram from the South Asian subcontinent made him break out in a cold sweat, and it was like sweat raining, in this hot area, he seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, so cold, so cold.
The Chinese used a flood to destroy the 1.5 million army of the Assam coalition, and even the million-strong army of Xiafei in Burma is about to fall into siege? Aren't the Chinese constantly "retreating"? Why is the situation taking such a turn for the worse?
Ishihara Wan'er, who had been working as Pershing's adviser, was also shocked when he got the news, and after learning that Seishiro Itagaki had committed suicide, the whole person instantly became silent.
Pershing said bitterly: "Why did it become like this? Why did your best friend commit suicide? β
Ishihara said bitterly: "Because Li Bufan is too powerful, he feels invincible." We crawled out of the pile of dead people just to deal with China, to take revenge, and to restore the country. But Li Bufan is so powerful and terrifying, he can't even look up, and there is no way to win against such an enemy, and it is meaningless to live. β
Pershing said seriously: "I admit that Li Bufan, the leader of the Chinese [***] side, is very remarkable, but he is not invincible. β
Ishihara looked at Pershing in a daze, he no longer knew whether to say that Pershing was ignorant or brave, and he didn't know whether to be sarcastic or encouraging, and finally only turned into a sigh: "The general would say such things, it seems that he didn't realize how powerful Li Bufan is, this person is indeed extraordinary and worthy of his name." β
Pershing said: "I admit that we have suffered a heavy defeat in the South Asian subcontinent battlefield, but our strength in the West is far greater than that of China, and the final victory must belong to us." β
Ishihara said lightly: "General, if you are given two million troops to deal with the same two million troops of the enemy, how much will it cost you to win?" β
"This," Pershing hesitated, "this is a close battle, and even if it wins, the victorious side will only lose more than half of it." β
Ishihara smiled and said, "Yes, the loss is more than half, that is, one million." However, Li Bufan annihilated the 1.5 million troops of the Assam coalition army with more than 1 million troops, and their own casualties were only 10,000 or 20,000. Do you think you are confident in winning against such an opponent? β
"This," Pershing opened his mouth wide and was speechless.
Ishihara shook his head and said with a smile: "China's art of war has been inherited for thousands of years, and it is a self-contained system, which is very different from the West. Western military originated in Europe, due to the factors of environmental geography and national territory, Western military concepts are inclined to the collision of strength, because the territory of Western countries is small, and there is not much strategic depth, almost every inch of land is fought for in war, so the importance of tactics is particularly emphasized. However, China's traditional military tactics are completely different from those of the West, because China has a vast land and vast strategic depth, and it does not need to care about the gains and losses of one city or one place. If it is China's own war, then perhaps China also needs to consider political factors and influences, but they can fight abroad, they can completely control and do whatever they want, and they can choose the time, place, climate, environment, and so on that are most favorable for them before launching a decisive battle. β
Pershing frowned: "Time, place, climate, environment?" β
"Yes!" Ishihara said, "It's like the Second Battle of Assam. In order to prepare for this war, the Chinese retreated one or two thousand kilometers, gaining half a year to arrange the battlefield. During this time, did they fight a tough battle with the coalition forces? No. Because it's not necessary. All they need to do is retreat easily, teasing you once in a while, leading you to the predetermined battlefield and sending you to hell. A flood wiped out an army of 1.5 million, and a million more troops were about to be surrounded and annihilated. β
"This" Pershing didn't know where to refute for a while, because what Ishihara said was the truth.
Ishihara said word by word: "This is China's strategy of the art of war. China's art of war can turn decay into magic, defeat the strong with the weak, and achieve incredibly brilliant results at a small cost. An outstanding Chinese general, he is fully capable of the contemporary, overwhelming the crowd, and invincible. Li Bufan is such a famous general, such a famous general, China may not be able to produce one in a thousand years. But now China has it, and it's Li Bufan. In the end, the corners of his mouth were full of bitterness.
He could fully imagine the despair in Seishiro Itagaki at that time, that sense of powerlessness, even if he was not immersed in the scene, he was completely shocked by Li Bufan's magic, and his heart was like ashes. The gap between the two sides is too big, it is simply a world of difference, an unreachable distance.
Itagaki Seishiro was sad to despair, desperate to death, dead to self-shame, ashamed to self-defeating.
Throughout Li Bufan's rise so far, he is simply invincible, between advance and retreat, it is like flowing water, attacking like thunder, and it is irresistible.
Pershing said bitterly: "Is there really no good way to defeat the Chinese?" β
Ishihara said seriously: "Yes." β
Pershing was overjoyed: "What way? β
Ishihara said: "It's very simple, kill Li Bufan." β
Pershing looked at Ishihara speechlessly, what kind of identity Li Bufan was, it was even more difficult to assassinate than to ascend to the sky. Especially when he said that he assassinated Li Bufan once, his security level was raised again, and he couldn't do it even if he was close to it, so he still wanted to assassinate him?
"Isn't there a good way to do that?"
"There is no good way." Ishihara Wan'er watched Pan Xin sit down discouraged when he heard this, and then said, "If you want to rely on military strategy to defeat such a famous general, it is almost impossible, and playing tricks with him is no different from going to death." But"
"But what?" Pan Xin was no longer interested.
"There is no good way, but the stupid way can be tried."
The fiasco of the Second Battle of Assam spread to Europe and shook the entire European and American Western worlds.
With 1.5 million troops annihilated and 1 million troops about to be surrounded, the expeditionary forces of the Western coalition forces were suddenly facing a situation of total annihilation when the situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse and faced a situation of total annihilation. Such a drastic change is like a bolt from the blue for the entire Western world.
Wandering and fearing spread like a plague, people could not imagine why the dilapidated and backward China had suddenly become so powerful and so terrifying.
"* disaster" is about to befall Europe again, Li Bufan has simply become the embodiment of the "whip of God" Arati two thousand years ago, and the regeneration of the Mongolian eldest son army that almost wiped out Europe hundreds of years ago, people seem to see countless Chinese [***] teams pouring towards Europe like a tide.
The top leaders of Western countries are also hesitant to end, Li Bufan's rise in just a few years, all the way almost with war, but why can Li Bufan be more and more courageous, more and more strong, the Western coalition sent by the commander lineup is already the strongest group in the West, but why is it so vulnerable in front of the Chinese in front of Li Bufan?