White House, Washington, USA.

President Roosevelt was already a little overwhelmed by the barrage of bad news.

In the Eastern European theater, the Soviet Red Army has collapsed on all fronts, and in a very short period of time, more than five million Red Army troops have been surrounded and annihilated by the German army in formation, the German front has advanced thousands of kilometers, Kiev has fallen, and the Ukrainians have welcomed the German army into their capital almost like a welcome hero.

Moscow and Stalingrad were already completely exposed to the German front.

What's worse is that Stalin's prestige in the CPSU has been greatly weakened, and his brutal rule in the Soviet Union is being greatly challenged.

However, President Roosevelt's adviser on Soviet affairs pointed out pessimistically that it would be difficult for the Soviet Union to survive next summer.

In the Western European theater, the Luftwaffe had given up the bombing of London and began to bomb the major British ports in order to cut off the British Isles from the overseas colonies, and in the contest with the Luftwaffe, the British Air Force was at a comprehensive disadvantage, while the American war machine had just started, and it was difficult to put together a strong air force to stop the Luftwaffe in a short time.

After weeks of bombing, many factories in the "British Empire" were in dire straits due to shortages of raw materials.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote in a personal letter to Roosevelt: "Every day, thousands of Nazi warplanes fly over England, all ports are bombed, a large number of ships full of supplies cannot dock, and a large number of factories are forced to shut down because of lack of raw materials...... President Roosevelt's security adviser pointed out in a very positive tone that as long as the Luftwaffe's strategic bombing of the British Isles continued for more than three weeks, Britain would be in a desperate situation, and the Royal Air Force of the "British Empire" would be forced to completely ground its flights because of the lack of aviation fuel, and the skies over the entire outlying islands would become the Luftwaffe's backyard.

In the African battlefield, Montgomery, the so-called famous general of the British Empire, had 200,000 troops and thousands of tanks, but was defeated by the famous German general "Desert Fox" Longer with only 50,000 German troops plus 500 tanks.

Thankfully, the first U.S. Army led by General Patton has landed in Morocco.

The worst situation was the Pacific Theater, where the 1st and 2nd armies of the US forces in the Philippines under the command of General MacArthur suffered heavy losses in succession, and all strategic and tactical air forces were almost completely lost.

In desperation, MacArthur not only wrote a suicide note, but even prepared a suicide pistol, which was given to him by his father when MacArthur graduated from West Point with the first grade!

However, Roosevelt was more worried about the situation on the battlefield in Burma, according to the report provided by Stilwell, a total defeat in Burma seems inevitable, after the fall of Burma, China's political axe will be completely cut off from the outside world, once China's political axe can not withstand the pressure to announce surrender or withdraw from the war, it is said that the political axe can free up millions of elite troops from the Chinese battlefield, whether these troops are thrown into the Pacific theater or attack the Soviet Union, it will become a disaster.

The presidential advisers have finally said what they are worried about and what they want to say.

President Roosevelt shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "I think the only good news may be that no matter how bad things will be in the future, they will probably not be worse than they are now." ”

As soon as the words fell, the beautiful female secretary walked in with the folder.

The secretary finally brought good news, the Chinese expeditionary force counterattacked on the battlefield in Burma and unexpectedly recaptured Myitkyina, an important town in northern Burma, and the situation in Myanmar seemed to have taken a turn for the better.

General Stilwell, commander-in-chief of the Burmese battlefield, sent back an urgent telegram, asking the US political axe to urgently provide 1,000 DC-3 transport planes to replace the Yunnan-Burma highway to continue to transfuse blood to China's political axe, and also hoped that the US political axe could provide 800 P-40 fighters to urgently expand Chennault's Flying Tigers into the 14th Air Force of the US Air Force.

President Roosevelt immediately held urgent consultations with his advisory group, and all the advisers agreed that in order to ensure that the Chinese political axe could continue to resist and contain the millions of Chinese troops on the battlefield, the American political axe should provide as many transport planes as possible to Asia, and try to open an air route to deliver war materials to the Chinese political axe.

The proposal to expand Chennault's Flying Tigers into the 14th Air Force of the U.S. Air Force was also approved, but at this time all the U.S. aircraft factories were working hard to produce orders for "British Empire" aircraft, and for at least half a year, the U.S. political axe could only provide a maximum of 400 P-40 fighters to the Asian theater.

As soon as the consultations ended, President Roosevelt immediately issued a decree that, in accordance with the "Arms Concession Act" passed by the US Congress in March this year, the US President has the right to directly provide weapons, equipment, and war materials to the allies without the permission of Congress to resist the aggression of the fascist countries.

………… When the U.S. political axe decided to open up air routes at all costs to continue to transfuse blood to the Chinese political axe, the Chinese expeditionary force also achieved another victory in the Burma battlefield.

The dozens of bazookas brought by Yue Weihan quickly took effect.

The 14th Tank Wing of the Southern Army was ambushed by the 200th Division on the outskirts of the northern Burmese town of Monggong, and the 200th Division destroyed all the tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled guns of the 14th Tank Wing of the Army at a small cost.

After the total annihilation of the 14th Wing of the Combat Vehicles of the Yue Army, the 200th Division, the New 22nd Division, and the 96th Division of the Fifth Army quickly relied on the town of Menggong to build three lines of defense before the 18th and 33rd Divisions of the Yue Army went north along the Manh (Dele) Mi (China) Railway, and at the same time, Yue Weihan also moved his headquarters to Myitkyina.

………… Myitkyina, the Zhujie meeting of the new 38th Division is being held, which is what Yue Weihan meant.

Replaced by Yue Weihan's descendant of the 39th Group Army, Yue Weihan would never have mobilized his troops to convene a congratulatory meeting for such a small achievement, but the expeditionary force was no better than the 39th Group Army, and the morale of the expeditionary force had fallen to a low level after successive defeats in Tonggu, Mandalay, and northern Burma, and the congratulatory ceremony could undoubtedly greatly boost the morale of the officers and men.

On the premise that there is no absolute air supremacy, in order to avoid air raids by the Chinese army, the Zhujie meeting was specially arranged to be held in the evening.

In addition to the 112th Regiment and the officers and soldiers who died in battle, all the officers and men of the new 38th Division who could stand were all there, and even hundreds of seriously wounded people came to the square and insisted on participating in the meeting.

The battle of the new 38th Division to capture Myitkyina seemed to be going well, but the casualties were actually not small.

After all, the 113th Wing is the elite wing of the army, and it has fought with [***] in the Central China Battlefield for four whole years, and it is not too much to say that they are veteran troops who have been killed from the bloody storm, although the new 38th Division completely annihilated the 113th Wing in a very short period of time, it also paid a heavy price of more than 1,500 casualties.

In the fierce and high-spirited military music, Yue Weihan and Luo Zhuoying had already walked onto the rostrum accompanied by Sun Liren.

"Commander-in-Chief Yue arrives at the ......" Accompanied by the hoarse roar of the ceremonial soldiers, more than 4,000 [***] officers and soldiers in the square moved their eyes to the right in unison, and countless eyes focused on Yue Weihan in an instant, there was indifference and disdain in these eyes, but more was anger, undisguised anger!

Including Sun Liren, all the officers and men of the new 38th Division have a fire in their hearts!

As a soldier, since the day they put on the uniform of the Tax Police Corps of the Bank of Eight Nations, they have already given their surnames to the country in their hearts, and for this country and this nation, they can die without hesitation! However, they never want to be despised by others, let alone tolerate insults from others, and neither can Yue Weihan!

As soon as Yue Weihan sat down on the rostrum, there was a sudden sound of drumming on the street in the distance.

When Yue Weihan turned his head to look, it was hundreds of overseas Chinese from Myitkyina who came to the labor army with banners and all kinds of condolences, and these Burmese overseas Chinese were very emotional, even the young men in their twenties were crying and laughing, and the Chinese people who had never lived overseas would never be able to experience the mood of the Burmese overseas Chinese at this moment.

"Hooray!"

"Long live the Chinese nation!"

"Long live the Chinese Expeditionary Force!"

The overseas Chinese in Myanmar cried while walking, and shouted slogans at the same time, the team was very chaotic, and the scene was very funny, but Yue Weihan's heart was heavy.

Many officers and men of the new 38th Division bowed their originally high heads with guilt, and they almost abandoned these overseas Chinese living in Burma; once they really retreated to India or returned home over the Savage Mountain, the fate of these Burmese overseas Chinese can be imagined, and the brutal devils will never let them go.

Thinking of this, the anger in the hearts of many officers and men was greatly reduced.

Although Yue Weihan insulted them, he also saved them from making more irreparable mistakes!

Soon, the [***] gendarmes in charge of the on-site vigilance invited hundreds of Burmese overseas Chinese to the temporary viewing platform under the rostrum, and when everything was ready, Sun Liren immediately strode to the front of the rostrum, and said hoarsely into the microphone: "Please take the heroic soul of the fallen brother in place!" ”

Before the microphone could be heard, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers walked out of the [***] phalanx, carried out more than 500 stretchers from the morgue next to them, and arranged them in a neat column at the front of the [***] phalanx.

Sun Liren immediately turned around and made a gesture of invitation to Yue Weihan.

Yue Weihan strode forward and stood behind the microphone, and was about to announce the start of the Zhujie meeting, when a heart-rending cry suddenly came from the viewing platform, and then a gray-haired old mother had rushed out of the crowd, grabbed one of the stretchers like crazy, and picked up a belt placed on the white cloth with trembling hands.

Yue Weihan couldn't help but froze, and swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

The old mother trembled and unfolded her belt, on which eight words were embroidered with red ribbons: Expelling the Japanese and returning my China.

"Son, my fourth son, ah......" Seeing the eight-character family motto embroidered with red ribbons, the last glimmer of hope in the old mother's heart was also extinguished in an instant, and she suddenly fainted to the ground with a sad cry, and before Sun Liren ordered, two [***] gendarmes had already rushed forward and helped the old mother down.

Yue Weihan turned around and looked at Sun Liren with an inquiring gaze.

"Zeng Shilang, Burmese overseas Chinese, returned to China to join the army with his three elder brothers in the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing and the Battle of Xuzhou, his three elder brothers died in battle, but he didn't know it." Sun Liren said as he took out a suicide note from his pocket and handed it to Yue Weihan, and said with a gloomy expression, "This is his suicide note, I originally planned to find his mother after the Zhujie Conference and hand over this suicide note to her personally, but I never thought about ......it."

Yue Weihan was silent, and immediately took the suicide note and read it into the microphone.

Mother, when you read this letter, your four sons have left this world forever.

Mother, the four sons are not filial, they broke their hearts when they were children, and they did not be able to fulfill their filial piety in front of your knees when they grew up, and now they are going to you first, and they can no longer give your old man linen and filial piety after a hundred years.

Mother, don't be sad for your four sons, let alone sad.

People will eventually die, it is the honor of a son to be able to sacrifice his life for the country and die on the battlefield for the nation, you old man should be happy for his son, his son did not disgrace you, let alone the motherland! My son will never forget what you taught the four brothers when you were a child: We are the descendants of Yanhuang, we are Chinese!

After reading the suicide note, Yue Weihan lost his voice for a long time, and the scene was even quieter.

It is a very simple suicide note, not to mention any literary brilliance, let alone amazing words, but the words contain the deep love of an ordinary [***] soldier for his mother and the motherland, for the motherland, for the mother, they can give everything without hesitation, including their most precious lives, which ...... It's the middle [***] people!

In the suffocating silence, Yue Weihan suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily to the more than 4,000 officers and soldiers in the audience!

(To be continued)