On 6 June, Li Guang received a second telegram, a request for help from Mountbatten, the British Governor-General in India, asking the Haitang Army to assist the British in the war against the Japanese army that was attacking Imphal on the border between India and Burma.

Li Guang simply didn't bother to waste time by thinking for a minute, and as soon as the telegram was thrown, he continued to focus on the European battlefield. The Normandy landings were the highlight of the day.

As for the situation in Burma, the Haitang Army still knows a lot, but Li Guang doesn't care.

In Li Guang's view, the two battles launched by the Japanese Army in the spring of '44 were actually farces. In the case that the Japanese Navy has been disabled, Japan's defeat is already a very obvious thing, and the dying struggle is not played like this, and the return to the light is almost the same.

In Chinese mainland, Japan launched the so-called campaign to open up the mainland's communication lines. If you think about it a little deeper, you will know that even if the Japanese army wins, how can it maintain thousands of kilometers of land lines of communication? On the vast sea, Japanese transport ships can still take risks and find loopholes to try their luck. But on land it is completely different, if the little devils want to maintain this transportation line of thousands of kilometers, I am afraid that a million army will not be enough.

On the battlefield in Burma, the Japanese army arrogantly launched an attack in the direction of India. Not to mention, in this geographical environment, how capable the Japanese army is to attack fortifications, just a logistics supply can kill a little devil.

More importantly, what can the Japanese army do if it enters India?

You must know that India has millions of square kilometers of land and millions of British and Indian troops. The 200,000 or 300,000 Japanese troops stationed in Burma alone could not control India at all. In summary. It only makes its own control over the occupied territories weaker.

In Li Guang's view, Japan's best response at the moment should be to shrink its forces and make efforts to withdraw its troops from the Korean Peninsula or transport supplies to the mainland. Maybe a little longer. Attacking blindly only hastened demise.

The Japanese generals were not idiots either. Nor can an idiot achieve so many victories on the battlefield.

So, why did the Japanese launch such an offensive?

It's ridiculous, but it's true.

The Japanese Navy blocked the news of the battle damage to the Japanese Army. The Japanese Army did not know that the overall situation was already precarious for Japan. The contradictions between the Japanese army and navy are so deep that they are almost like a joke.

Not only that, but the Japanese Army also blocked information from each other. The Burmese Japanese army was unaware of the series of defeats of the Japanese Army in the Pacific. Many Japanese generals were still intoxicated: put three shots, and the British ghost animals fled.

Whatever the devil's reason is. In short, beginning in March, the Japanese army mobilized the strength of one corps with a total of three divisions, and mobilized a fifth air group as air support. Thus began the campaign to attack Imphal.

To attack Imphal, the greatest difficulty for the Japanese army was transportation. The offensive route was all mountain roads, not to mention that the Japanese army did not have many cars, and even if they did, they could not use them, and the focus of the Haitang Army's operations for the entire four or three years was in Burma. Under the bombardment in turns. Roads in Myanmar are cut off, and not even a decent bridge can be found.

Little Japan was very good at using his brains, and collected horses, elephants, buffaloes, goats, and even monkeys and dogs to help transport them in Burma. The transport of these animals cannot be said to be useless. However, when the Japanese army reached the ground, the convoy was already depleted of animals. The tens of thousands of little devils are actually starting to go hungry.

Under these circumstances, Li Guang did not think that the British and Indian armies would lose the battle.

Regarding the situation of the Anglo-Indian army, the Haitang Army understood it quite thoroughly. The Anglo-Indian army had enough troops, more than one million.

Moreover, the training of the Anglo-Indian army is not bad, don't look at the Anglo-Indian soldiers are all "peace-loving" Indians, but the officers and technical arms are all British troops. Although the British raided India, it was still very good for the Indian soldiers, and these Indian Asans were all well nourished, and the tactical level of individual soldiers was not bad. In addition, Britain also counted on the transfer of these troops to Europe to fight in the future, and the British and Indian troops were well equipped, basically comparable to the equipment of the British army at home, and the supplies and ammunition were even more abundant due to the support of the United States.

What is even more advantageous is that the British and Indian armies are fighting defensive battles, and in the mountains on the border between Burma and India, they have taken a great advantage, and there is almost no reason to lose.

Since there is no reason to lose, Li Guang naturally doesn't care much. In fact, even if he will lose, Li Guang doesn't care.

For the Haitang Kingdom and China, the most important functions of Myanmar are only two things: the passage of goods and the passage of personnel.

The issue of material passage has been preliminarily resolved by the Haitang Army. As long as the U.S. military completely occupies the Philippines, sea transportation will be safer and easier.

As for the personnel. Although if the British army is defeated, Haitang's personnel exchanges will be affected, but the impact will not be great. After nearly two years of immigration, the landless peasants in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan region of China have collected almost everything. Although not all, but after all, the homeland is difficult to leave, although some peasants have no land, as long as they can barely live, they are not willing to immigrate to unknown distances with the ancestral tablet. As for those from other provinces who came to the southwest to survive, Haitang also has an area that can be resettled - northern Myanmar.

Here I have to praise Su Qing, the commander of the third column. Li Guang really doesn't know how to evaluate this eldest brother. It is said that Su Qing is one of the most important generals of the Haitang Army. However, Li Guang did not attach much importance to the level of combat. It can be seen from the number of troops commanded by Su Qing.

Su Qing was in forty-two years, and in four or three years, he only had a regiment of troops on hand. Although two more regiments were added in four or four years, the actual commander was Xu Zhan, the commander of the detachment. Because Su Qing served as a liaison officer with the Chinese army, he returned to China.

However, Su Qing's importance, and even his position, was difficult for anyone in the Haitang Army to replace. In the past two years in Myitkyina, Su Qing's governing talent has been greatly demonstrated.

In Myitkyina, Su Qing did not simply find many Burmese women for Haitang, but more importantly, tens of thousands of square meters of fair land north of Myitkyina have actually been controlled by Su Qing.

If the reader still remembers the more than 40,000 security regiments of the Dian Army sent by Chairman Chiang to Haitang, more than 10,000 of them became the regular army of Haitang. Then the resettlement of more than 30,000 people really shows Su Qing's political talent.

More than 30,000 people. Half of them are smokers, ghosts, and ruffians, and the other half are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the difficulty of dealing with them can be imagined. But in Su Qing's hands. It hardly caused much turmoil, and he soon quit smoking. Moreover, Su Qing's methods are "flexible", and the people of northern Myanmar (the ethnic groups there are actually no different from Yunnan. As for the modern ethnic distinctions, they are the result of the deliberate strengthening of political ambitions. It didn't cause much conflict, and if it did, the 30,000 old and weak officers and soldiers of the security regiment would hardly be able to go to the battlefield, but for the residents. Absolutely invincible.

Su Qing is very good at budgeting, and it doesn't cost much, so he began to open up wasteland and farm.

Two years. Su Qing not only achieved self-reliance for more than 30,000 Yunnan people, but also brought their families to northern Myanmar. More than 100,000 people are now living and working in peace and contentment.

As for whether Su Qing's methods are completely civilized, this matter. Li Guang, who has a "moral cleanliness fetish," has always kept asking.

This is why Li Guang is not concerned about the situation in Myanmar and India. Later, the Haitang Army only sent the aircraft carrier Arctic Ocean to routinely attack the Japanese stronghold in Burma, and the army did not send a single soldier.

Winston Churchill, the prime minister of the British Empire, once criticized Li Guang's behavior as "too disregarding the overall anti-fascist situation in the world."

Li Guang replied: If the British Empire had taken into account the overall situation and should have given China the materials and equipment used to train and equip the 3 million Indian army, it would have defeated Japan long ago. Otherwise, the main force of the navy should be transferred to the Pacific Ocean, and the US military should join forces to completely destroy the Japanese navy in one go.

For the battle that took place in Imphal. Li Guang didn't care, in fact, there was another reason. In his vague memory, it seems that the Japanese army did not hit India in history.

However, Li Guang, a butterfly, with its wings fanning around, has inadvertently changed a lot. Several of his actions, intentionally or unintentionally, caused a storm at this time.

First, the strategic air force of the Haitang Army withdrew from India and transferred to Chinese mainland. Army aviation, due to the serious redeployment, also left the Burma battlefield. So much so that the air power, in which the Allies had completely superiority, had a shortcoming.

And because the Haitang Army took over the transportation task to Chinese mainland, it obtained 90 US military transport planes originally stationed in India. As a result, the British army lost the means to airdrop supplies during the battle.

What's more, in 4142, there was a great famine in Bengal, and Haitang and the Indians there had a grain trade. At that time, in order to add to the blockage of the British, Li Guang sold tens of thousands of rifles whose rifling was almost smoothed to the locals.

Indians are peace-loving, and most people buy guns just to protect themselves from the looting of hungry mobs. However, there is a robbery is the king of grass, this sentence is applicable in China, and it is also true in India. In a short period of time, there were hundreds of large and small armed forces in Bangladesh.

The Japanese army attacked India under the banner of "liberating India." In this way, the problem became big.

You must know that there are two "puppet armies" in the Japanese army, one is Burmese, and the leader is the father of the woman named Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar in the 21st century. The other is the so-called Indian National Salvation Army. These puppet armies are not good at fighting, but the level of agitation is quite adequate. Along with the Japanese attack, the independence movement in Bangladesh was surging, hundreds of thousands of Indians were wreaking havoc everywhere, British supplies were burned and looted, roads and bridges were bombed, and "law and order" was in chaos. As a result, the supply of the British army to the front was affected.

Therefore, after two or three months of fighting, there was a shortage of guns and ammunition for the Japanese army, and the British and Indian troops were also hungry, and there was a lack of guns and ammunition. Both armies were hungry and behaved very differently. The Anglo-Indian army was not hungry, and its combat effectiveness could still be seen, and as soon as it was hungry, it simply sat on the ground and struck. Strikes are naturally to be defeated.

As a result, the Japanese army actually had a glimmer of vitality in a desperate situation, and there were often small captures on the battlefield, and they were barely able to continue fighting.

Later, the British saw that it was impossible for Haitang to send troops to help the British army. The Anglo-Indian Governor Mountbatten had no choice but to retreat and ask Haitang to help maintain law and order, but Li Guang solemnly refused: what to do with law and order, to put it bluntly, is to massacre the Indian rebels. The chaotic people are also the people, Haitang has nothing to offend the Indian people, is it fun?

As a result, the campaign that ended in July in history was fought until the end of the year. Although the British army was victorious in the end, a million troops were firmly sucked on the border between India and Burma.

What's more, a nationwide uprising began in India, and the movement for independence was surging. The riots of the Indians, though fun, were nothing more than firing guns in the sky and setting fire to a meadow and woods, and even then it was enough for Mountbatten to be busy. So much so that until the end of the war, India could no longer provide more troops for the European theater of war.

Li Guang was in the general staff and waited until noon, but he never received the news of the Normandy landing. It wasn't until lunch that Li Guang realized that due to the time difference, it seemed that it was only early morning in Europe at the moment, and the Normandy landing battle had just begun.

Before the job was put down, a telegram reached Li Guang's hand: MacArthur was complacent, and in less than three months, the US military occupied Luzon Island, and captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on 6 June.

This is good news, Mak Dashuai's occupation of Manila means that Mak Dashuai should fulfill his promise and help Haitang fight for aid funds.

There was also a piece of news in the cable, which was not good for MacArthur, but neutral news for Li Guang -- Admiral Nimitz, commander of the US Pacific Navy, began a military operation to attack Iwo Jima in the early morning.

Nimitz did an excellent job of secrecy, and not only did the Haitang military not know about it, but even MacArthur was kept in the dark.

This is to fight for merit. Nimitz's navy rested for more than half a year, and as soon as its combat effectiveness was restored, it immediately went into action.

Li Guang was actually a little worried about Nimitz's actions. He was not worried about Nimitz's naval strength, you must know that Nimitz now has seven or eight battleships, more than a dozen regular aircraft carriers, and hundreds of other ships. If the Japanese Combined Fleet did not shrink its head and turtle, the whole army would be destroyed if it attacked with its whole army.

The only thing to worry about is the landing force. The Marine Corps commanded by Nimitz had two divisions, plus other naval units, for a total strength of 200,000.

However, the Battle of Iwo Jima was known for its brutality, and although Nimitz had two elite divisions, the other units were no match for MacArthur's army. Whether or not Iwo Jima can be successfully taken requires a question mark.

Li Guang still didn't pay too much attention to this news: as long as the US military fights a war, it will consume the Japanese army, which will be beneficial to Haitang and China. (To be continued......)