On this day, Li Mi invited Terauchi Chengyi to his office, compared to Li Guohui, Li Mi's style was more direct, and he said straight to the point: "I heard that Mr. Terauchi is the representative of the boss of Tangning, and he wants to do a long-term white goods business, right?"

Although Terauchi Chengichi was very unaccustomed to Li Mi's appearance of treating himself as the master when he first arrived, in order not to spoil the business, he still said with a smile: "That's right, now the production of awakening agents has been banned in Japan, so the raw materials must be imported from outside, and our boss has considered that he has long been in contact with your party troops, and they trust each other very much, so he specially sent me to Myanmar." ”

Li Mi nodded: "Well, that's right, we used the products you produced in the early years, so we are still very confident in Mr. Tangning's credibility and strength, and we have always received all kinds of assistance from the United States, so I personally don't have any opinions on this business, if it wasn't for some work handover here here in Mengsa a few days ago, then this business is estimated to have been negotiated." ”

Chengyi in the temple sneered in his heart, the handover of work, this is really light, in fact, isn't this just a snatch of power, no one Li Guohui is far away in the jungle, fighting desperately, how can Mengsa take it. Now you see that there are troops here, so you think about driving people away and occupying them yourself.

During this time, Chengichi in the temple has been staying in Mengza, and he just asks around all day when he has nothing to do, so now he has a clear understanding of Li Guohui's fortune.

In January 1950, the Eighth Corps of the Kuomintang suffered a great defeat in Mengzi, Yunnan, and its 60,000-strong troops were annihilated by two divisions of the People's Liberation Army on the east bank of the Yuanjiang River, and the deputy commander of the corps, Tang Yao, and the commander of the corps, Cao Tiange, were captured. In February, several thousand defeated troops of the 709th Regiment of the Eighth Army retreated to the southwest. Under the leadership of the regiment commander Li Guohui, they crossed the Yuanjiang River, the upper reaches of the Red River. Flee along the highway through Jiangcheng Mengcang to the Sino-Burmese border

At that time, the situation was that there were poor mountains and rivers along the way, sparsely populated, and it was impossible to hide on the spot, and the PLA was chasing after them relentlessly, and whether or not they could escape was completely determined by the speed of the march. But there are still many family members in his army who are dragging their children with them. It is unrealistic to ask these women and children to compare their speed with the PLA's iron feet and scuds. Therefore, the only escape route is to cross the border with China and Myanmar and temporarily enter northern Myanmar. At that time, Myanmar had only been two years old, and the ZF Army had not yet reached northern Myanmar, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army would never pursue beyond the national border. Therefore, the northern part of Myanmar has become an absolutely safe area for them. When Li Guohui arrived at the Sino-Burmese border in southern Yunnan, he heard from the wounded soldiers left on the side of the road that the 278th Regiment, led by Tan Zhong, deputy commander of the regiment, had crossed the national border and headed south. They also said that their plan was to go to northern Myanmar. You can make a detour to Thailand and go to Hainan Island to join the ** army.

So they decided to follow Tan Zhong's path, and moved overnight, carrying torches, crossing the Jiehe River, and entering Xiao Mengtou, a village in northern Burma. The turning point reached northern Burma, with the loss of most of the troops' personnel, which can be described as difficult

After the merger of the remnants of the army, there were more than 1,600 combatants, more than 1,000 rifles and carbines, and dozens of mules and horses. Dozens of light and heavy machine guns and two mortars. Li Guohui served as commander-in-chief and head of the 709th Regiment. Tan Zhong served as deputy commander-in-chief and head of the 278th Regiment, and Qian Yunzhou served as chief of staff, with three detachments and two special brigades under its jurisdiction, and the headquarters was temporarily located in Xiaomengtou.

At that time, Myanmar** had just been two years old, nationalist sentiment was high, and the concept of territorial sovereignty was very clear. The Ministry of National Defense immediately sent a large force of 12,000 troops to northern Burma, set up its headquarters in Monsar, and issued an ultimatum demanding that Li Guohui lead the troops to leave the country within 10 days, otherwise they would be completely encircled and suppressed. didn't wait for Li Guohui to reply. The Burmese ZF Army also sent troops to garrison Muang Phan. Mengban is located in a large village on the east and west banks of the boundary river between northern Myanmar and northern Thailand. It is the main crossing of traffic between the two countries. As a result, it is no longer possible for this Chinese army to return to Yunnan, and the passage to Thailand has also been cut off, and it has become a turtle in an urn, just waiting for the whole army to be annihilated.

However, the ancient war book said that "put the death and come back to life" played a key role in this battle with a huge disparity in strength. With the cooperation of aircraft, artillery, and tanks, 12,000 Burmese ZF troops launched an attack on Xiao Mengtou, and Li Guohui withdrew his troops to the top of the hill and organized a cross-fire network to deal with the four planes hovering overhead, and actually shot down two planes at once, and the Burmese ZF Army took advantage of its military superiority to launch a general ground offensive. Li Guohui led the troops to skillfully withdraw from Tui, immediately reorganized the troops, and Tan Zhong led a force to sneak to Mengsa to the headquarters of the ZF Army.

In the end, Li Guohui defeated the Burmese ZF army four times his own for thousands of miles, and the ace troops of the Burmese ZF who hired British instructors with great money were all wiped out, and the commander committed suicide, which made the Burmese ZF acquiesce to Li Guohui's dominance in Mengza. For the specific process, you can take a look at Andy Lau starring Zhu Yanping's exotic land, which describes this war in detail and tragically, but due to political reasons, it has not been introduced in China

Therefore, Chengyi in the temple couldn't look down on Li Mi, who grabbed the peach, but for the sake of business, he had to say: "I know that your army has had a big event recently, so I don't dare to disturb, and I have been waiting for Commander Li's call." ”

Li Mi waved his hand: "Don't be so polite, we still have to work together for a long time in the future, but this time I may be sorry, because we are about to carry out a military operation, so there is not much time to adjust the goods, so the number of goods this time may not meet the requirements of the previous contract, I hope that Mr. Terauchi will go back and say a few good words to Boss Tangning, and we will definitely express it when we make a difference next time." ”

For this kind of thing, the temple is naturally unbelievable, before he was under the pressure of Li Guohui to agree to the request to increase the goods of two percent, and now he is naturally busy answering, and at the same time complaining in his heart, this Li Mi is not a business material at all, this Mengsa is under his control, can he hold on to the next exchange or a matter of two words.

But at this time, Li Mi's thoughts were completely different from those of the temple, Li Mi was a man who led troops, and after the Northern Expedition, the War of Resistance and the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War, he knew best what an army should rely on to achieve victory. It is clearer the real reasons for the defeat of the Kuomintang. He knew that it was impossible to counterattack the mainland, and even a counterattack on Yunnan could only be a symbolic counterattack. To be continued